Names Quotes
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
Tom Stoppard
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What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.
Barack Obama
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It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.
Norman Braman
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
Tahereh Mafi
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I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
Nicki Minaj
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It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.
Betty Smith
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And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
A. A. Milne
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It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
T. B. Joshua
