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The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

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Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

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When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

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I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

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I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

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When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

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When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

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When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

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God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

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What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?

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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

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Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

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If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

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Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

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I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

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We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

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

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If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

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But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

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We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

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There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

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The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

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I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

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We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."

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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

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It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

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I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

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The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

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I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

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We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

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I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.

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What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

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The Lord called me to plant a church.

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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

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A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

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To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair.

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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

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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.

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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

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These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

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These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

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I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

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And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

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I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

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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.

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I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

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The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

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What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

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People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms.

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We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

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It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

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I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

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On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

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But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

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People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.

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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

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The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

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We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

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Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

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