Name Quotes
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There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck
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You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.
Lisa Unger
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I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
Charlotte Bronte
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The name is also connected with living in New York in this really weird time. People are constantly waiting for something bad to happen. I wrote these songs and formed this band to make sure I didn't get overcome by that sense of fear. That's what this band is about -- standing tall and not being afraid.
Sam Endicott The Bravery
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It's weird when you open up Billboard because you see your name next to 50 Cent and Madonna. I mean, 50 Cent who I grew up on for the last month.
Ben Moody Evanescence
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Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.
Milton Berle
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson
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People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I can't really slip up and mess up the name.
Selah Louise Marley
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For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor
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Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
Jean-Philip Grobler
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You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.
Mike Tyson
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One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.
Rabbi Hillel
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America has been another name for opportunity.
Frederick Jackson Turner
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
Jasper Fforde
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Don’t say my name like that. Please, Your Grace. If you have any care for me at all - pretend to flirt. But don’t actually do it.
Courtney Milan
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Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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One thing's certain. With a name like Abrahams, he won't be in the chapel choir, now will he?
Colin Welland
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I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.
Vanessa Marano