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Name Quotes
"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
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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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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"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."
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"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
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"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
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"There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous."
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"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."
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"Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."
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"I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it."
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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name."
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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."
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"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."
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"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."
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"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."
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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
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"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."
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"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."
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"Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand."
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