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Name Quotes
"What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on."
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"If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
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"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
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"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."
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"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."
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"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
Name,
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"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."
12
"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."
12
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
12
"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."
12
"The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it."
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"The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins."
11
"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
Name,
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"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."
11
"I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name."
Name,
10
"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."
10
"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."
10
"My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good."
10
"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
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"Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about."
Name,
10
"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
Name,
10
"Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch."
9
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
9
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."
Name,
9
"Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis."
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