#calls

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

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It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. ↗

— Mary Steenburgen

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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. ↗

— Peter Coyote

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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know. ↗

— Howard Finster

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