- Half
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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
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.
- Benevolence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Thile... to name a few.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020