Names Quotes
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I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?
Bill Vaughan
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The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.
Carl Linnaeus
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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.
Adam Sandler
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Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.
Israel ben Eliezer
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.
Haile Gerima
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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.
Max Roach
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
Dale Carnegie
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
William Dampier
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I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
Nalini Singh
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They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.
Gabriel Ba
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Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
Janet Jackson
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The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
John Hancock
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The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.
Willard Wigan
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
Aldrich Ames
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When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.
Barack Obama
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What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
Vance Havner
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
Carl Linnaeus
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Frailty, thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare