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There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
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A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
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A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
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At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
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But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) -
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Patterns, Seeds, Cloaking, Soul Circling, p. 86 -
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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