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Name Quotes
"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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"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,
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"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."
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"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."
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"I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop."
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"Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis."
Name,
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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."
Name,
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"I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible."
Name,
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"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
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"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
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"My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good."
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"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."
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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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"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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"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
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"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
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"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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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 used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."
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"Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand."
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"And so with all things: names were vital and important."
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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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"Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough."
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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
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