#calling

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#back #calling #doing #far #just

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. ↗

— Maya Lin

#american #american dream #being #calling #dream

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. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#calling #does #dog #four #how

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#calling #dog #five #how #leg

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre. ↗

— Ed Markey

#corrupt #groups #human #human rights #hundreds

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

#calling #had #important #into #jackie

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

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get