I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.
I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I’m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.
I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.
I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me.
Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene. '
We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
L. A. is a strange town at night. Everyone in L. A. goes to sleep really early, because they have to get up to exercise or call the East Coast in the morning or whatever, so what happens there at night is really mysterious.
I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.
Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.
Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.
I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!
Realize the complicated specials of what we call the "inferiority complex. " In other words, what, Miss Thing, is so damn special about you to make you feel so specially inferior to any other jerk?
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
Just by gazing upon her face. . . No matter how weary you are, you will feel happy, deep inside your heart, you will feel a warmth This is a "piece of joy" This is all the happiness you need. Normally, we call this "love".
People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one
Most people call me Mercy. I like it
