- Think
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the body of the audience repeating, amplifying, each statement made by the speaker.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020