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Jai Ganesh

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Call Quotes - IV

Call Quotes - IV

1. Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity. - Ban Ki-moon

2. The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this? - John Muir

3. People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. - James Cameron

4. I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens. - Johnny Depp

5. Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth. - Keanu Reeves

6. But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. - George Eliot

7. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go. - Shah Rukh Khan

8. Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. - Robert Mugabe

9. If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin. - Narendra Modi

10. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov

11. I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter. - Jim Carrey

12. I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business. - Zig Ziglar.

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