Name Quotes
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
Octavia Spencer
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole
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My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic, I have a disease and they don't know what to call it.
Eminem
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My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
Malachi Throne
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
Gabrielle Zevin
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
Naomi Klein
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
Famke Janssen
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I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
Rafael dos Anjos
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A name change has a rippling effect on the people who have to change their address, ... The first thing we have to do is get the affected neighbors and have a meeting to let them know what's going on.
Joe Davis
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur, thoughts of state championships dancing before me. I couldn't wait to work with someone at that level.
J. M. Roberts
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
Ian Anderson
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
Yancy Butler
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My mother gave me a Muslim name because she "was fascinated by Arabia,"
Ibrahim Ferrer Afro-Cuban All Stars
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
Laura Robson
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
Aaron Klein