Names Quotes
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
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My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.
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Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: — 'Take care. — If you do not speak — I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way.
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
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When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
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If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
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My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
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Honestly, when I'm out there, I really don't even think about them as guys with names. I look at them as numbers.
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I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
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If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.
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I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.
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We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.
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Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.
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How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?
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I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.
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Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
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There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
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I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
