#calling

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. ↗

— Willie Mays

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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

#better #calling #citizenship #could #demanded

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#design #intelligent #new #strategy #teach

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#calling #career #debut #entrepreneurial #ever

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave. ↗

— Franka Potente

#am #available #because #calling #effort

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#crazy #crazy life #dead #find #had

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#calling #get #many #off #people

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#also #been #called #calling #documentary

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#iraq #like #rabbi #taxi #texas