Name Quotes
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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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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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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I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
Rafael dos Anjos
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
Sam Kean
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
Yancy Butler
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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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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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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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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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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling
