Name Quotes
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
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Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
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I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.
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When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.
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Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
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I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.
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I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
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I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
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Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.
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Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.
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Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.
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When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
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Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.
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Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had.
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When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.
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He just wanted to be left alone and maybe have people get his name right if they had to talk to him.
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Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference.
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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.
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Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
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The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.
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If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.
