- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Name Quotes
A name carries more history than it seems.
These quotes explore names from a few sides - living with a name that carries an unusual meaning, the messy improvised way band names actually get chosen, and the pride of having your name tied to a brand you believe in. See I Am Quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, 'You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don't do this.' And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of folks who talk about immigration reform but haven't put their name on a bill.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020