Calling Quotes

Lipgloss is my calling!
Vanessa Hudgens

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union

Pet, Bad, Someone

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
Shaquille O'Neal

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
Janet Jackson

Help, Real, Thought

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman

Hair, Attention, Felt

Medicine has always been my calling.
Mehmet Oz

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
Sloane Crosley

Here, Grow, Object

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
Arthur Scargill

Nothing, Giving, Action

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
Geezer Butler

Hair, Themselves, Growing

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward

Long, Books, Either

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Girl, Hanging, Email

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
Sara Blakely

Everything, Made, Off

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
Karl Rove

Stupid, Winning, House

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
Guy Pearce

Good, Bad, Struggle

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
Channing Tatum

Lawyer, Prove, Roles

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Before, Purpose, Heaven

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Rowan Atkinson

Job, Thought, Acting

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

Life, Long, Career

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.
Richard Simmons

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx

Life, Sports, Hollywood

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
Barbara Corcoran

Sex, Saying, Whole

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'
David Sedaris

Yourself, Until, Started

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
Donny Osmond

Love, Fun, Thought

Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go 'Oh my God you're bigger than the hulk on TV' so they started calling me Terry 'The Hulk' Boulder.
Hulk Hogan

God, Night, Talk

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.
Bobby Brown

Time, Bad, Beginning

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Katey Sagal

Self, Fact, Growing

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
Chris Evans

Time, Christmas, Live

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Condoleezza Rice

Time, Rather, Situation

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.
Curt Schilling

Mean, Anyone, Mistake

My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.
Nicki Minaj

Family, Friends, Whatever

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