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Name Quotes
"I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves."
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"I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle 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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"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
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"The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins."
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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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"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."
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"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
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"In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special."
Name,
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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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"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 remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
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"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
Name,
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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."
Name,
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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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"I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else."
Name,
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"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
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"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
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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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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
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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."
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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"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
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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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"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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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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"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."
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