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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better off if some industries are allowed to wither, their workers lose their jobs, and investors lose their capital - all in the name of the greater glory of globalization - surely ranks near the top.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020