- Never
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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't model unless I think the project is cool, and I don't put my name behind something that I don't genuinely believe in.
- Dare
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to make my name of songs strange.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dirk is like the German Moses, invincible and inspiring. That is why 'His Name Is Dirk' must be the Official Fan Song for Dirk Nowitzki.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before saying, 'This track is so dope; it's gonna go on the album,' I like to take some time away from it and see how I feel about it in a few months. If it's gonna get released, I gotta love it - it's gonna have my name on it forever.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We invite our friends who hold high positions in the legislative branch of government and state institutions to master the skills of administration, so they could, when the time comes, reform the Turkish state and make it more fruitful at all its levels in the name of Islam.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020