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Name Quotes
"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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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."
Name,
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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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"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
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"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
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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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"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."
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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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"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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"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."
Name,
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"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."
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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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"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."
Name,
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"And so with all things: names were vital and important."
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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 think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
Name,
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"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
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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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"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."
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"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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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."
Name,
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"I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else."
Name,
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"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
Name,
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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand."
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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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