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Name Quotes


"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."


"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."


"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."


"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."


"My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her."


"We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything."


"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."


"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
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"I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians."
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"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."



"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."


"Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about."
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"Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch."


"I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it."


"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."


"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."


"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."


"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."


"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."


"In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special."
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"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."


"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"
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"The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins."


"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."


"I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name."
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