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Name Quotes
"I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?"
Name,
9
"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
Name,
8
"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."
Name,
8
"When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses."
8
"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
8
"I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it."
8
"I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else."
Name,
8
"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
8
"In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special."
Name,
8
"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
7
"I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop."
7
"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
7
"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."
7
"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
7
"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
Name,
7
"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,
7
"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."
7
"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."
7
"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."
7
"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."
Name,
7
"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
6
"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
6
"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
6
"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."
6
"Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand."
6
"And so with all things: names were vital and important."
6
"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."
6
"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
Name,
6
"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
5
"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
5
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