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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
Author:
John Zorn
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The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.
Author:
Dweezil Zappa
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I have a funny name.
Author:
Pia Zadora
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Author:
Edward Young
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They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
Author:
John Yoo
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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
Author:
Ian Wright
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Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
Author:
Fay Wray
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The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Author:
John Wise
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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.
Author:
Michael Winterbottom
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
Author:
Justin Winsor
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There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
Author:
James Wilson
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I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.
Author:
Treat Williams
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Author:
Ted Williams
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We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
Author:
Shirley Williams
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Author:
Otis Williams
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I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
Author:
Prince William
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
Author:
William White
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My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
Author:
Ryan White
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Author:
Barry White
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These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Author:
Christiaan Wet
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I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Author:
George Weah
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I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
Author:
Mike Watt
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Author:
Andy Warhol
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I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Author:
Andy Warhol
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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Author:
Robert Walpole
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I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
Author:
David Walliams
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Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.
Author:
Mort Walker
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He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.
Author:
George Walker
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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.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.
Author:
Lindsay Wagner
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Author:
Voltaire
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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.
Author:
Nana Visitor
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I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
Author:
Gene Vincent
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Author:
Alvaro Velez
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And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.
Author:
Alan Vega
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
Author:
Charles V
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
Author:
John Updike
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Author:
Mark Twain
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Author:
Joanna Trollope
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Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.
Author:
Peter Townsend
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My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
Author:
Carrot Top
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.
Author:
Palmiro Togliatti
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We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
Author:
Keith Thibodeaux
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
Author:
Alexander Theroux
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Author:
William Thackeray
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Author:
William Thackeray
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Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
Author:
Torquato Tasso
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There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.
Author:
Frank Tashlin
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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Author:
Serj Tankian
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Author:
Max Sydow
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Author:
Max Sydow
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I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Author:
Matthew Sweet
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All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.
Author:
Jeremy Sumpter
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Author:
Pat Summerall
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Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.
Author:
Jim Sullivan
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Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Author:
Hudson Stuck
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I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Author:
Whitley Strieber
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
Author:
John Strachan
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It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.
Author:
Robert Stone
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A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
Author:
Martha Stewart
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I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
Author:
Kristen Stewart
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Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Author:
Laurence Stern
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
Author:
Joseph Stefano
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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.
Author:
Mary Steenburgen
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Author:
Abdolkarim Soroush
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The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
Author:
King Solomon
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I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?
Author:
Carrie Snodgress
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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.
Author:
Dee Snider
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Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.
Author:
Anna Smith
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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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If you got a name like Barack Obama, you're supposed to fight.
Author:
Sinbad
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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
Author:
Joe Shuster
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Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Author:
Matthew Shipp
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His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?
Author:
Matthew Shipp
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
Author:
William Sherman
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And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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The stuff we did under the name the Rentals got so chaotic.
Author:
Matt Sharp
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Author:
Karl Shapiro
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
Author:
Nassau Senior
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Author:
John Selden
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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?
Author:
Bon Scott
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I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
Author:
Martin Scorsese
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
Author:
Kurt Schwitters
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Author:
Charles Schulz
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Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
Author:
Marge Schott
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
Author:
Neil Schon
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.
Author:
Gene Sarazen
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Author:
George Santayana
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Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Author:
Sallust
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America Held Hostage won 24 Emmys for ABC News, but someone forgot to include my name on the list of people responsible for the show.
Author:
Pierre Salinger
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.
Author:
Nolan Ryan
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I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
Author:
Mike Rutherford
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The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
Author:
John Russell
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The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
Author:
Graham Russell
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
Author:
Jimmy Rushing
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
Author:
Mercedes Ruehl
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When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Author:
J. Rowling
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When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
Author:
Portia Rossi
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I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
Author:
Robert Ross
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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James Roosevelt
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George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them.
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Cesar Romero
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That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
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Cesar Romero
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I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.
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Christy Romano
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
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Auguste Rodin
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I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
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Kid Rock
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
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Francois Rochefoucauld
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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Francois Rochefoucauld
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I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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Edwin Robinson
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
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Brooks Robinson
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
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Tom Robbins
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What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?
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Mickey Rivers
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I'd like to give divorce a good name.
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Geraldo Rivera
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Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
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Guy Ritchie
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Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.
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Charles Richter
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Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.
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Buddy Rich
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Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
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Adam Rich
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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
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Ernest Renan
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We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.
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Paul Reiser
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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Carl Reiner
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I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
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Lynn Redgrave
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You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
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Michael Reagan
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I know of no better name than Anarchism.
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Herbert Read
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Down time is not the name of the game.
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Usher Raymond
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Man Ray
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Sally Rand
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Ramakrishna
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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Jean Racine
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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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Anthony Quinn
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After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
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Suzi Quatro
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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Manuel Puig
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Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
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Sextus Propertius
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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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Charley Pride
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Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
Author:
Alan Price
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I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?"
Author:
Lisa Presley
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The name of Peru was not known to the natives.
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William Prescott
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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Orson Pratt
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It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
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Orson Pratt
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The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
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John Powell
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
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Paula Poundstone
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Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
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Chaim Potok
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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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Jon Postel
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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
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Marcus Pollio
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
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Henri Poincare
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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Henri Poincare
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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Edgar Poe
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I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
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Brad Pitt
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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Zebulon Pike
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The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
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David Pierce
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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
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River Phoenix
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When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
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River Phoenix
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When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
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Joaquin Phoenix
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I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
Author:
Joaquin Phoenix
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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Phaedrus
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Petrarch
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I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.
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Luke Perry
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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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Gregory Peck
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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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John Pearson
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There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
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Tim Pawlenty
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
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Pope Paul II
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I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
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Deval Patrick
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Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.
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Joe Paterno
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The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
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Louis Pasteur
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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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Andy Partridge
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Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.
Author:
Nick Park
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It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.
Author:
Sister Parish
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The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
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Sara Paretsky
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
Author:
Tom Palmer
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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
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Thomas Paine
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Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
Author:
Robert Owen
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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
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James Otis
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I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.
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Mary-Kate Olsen
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There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
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Andrew Oliver
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In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
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Conan O'Brien
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
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Barack Obama
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I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
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John Oates
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
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John Oates
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
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Kim Novak
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Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
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Kim Novak
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I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.
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Bob Novak
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I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
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Jeremy Northam
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Oliver North
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In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.
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Oliver North
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So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.
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Greg Norman
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It was a boy's name first.
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Leslie Nielsen
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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Adela Nicolson
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My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
Author:
Claude Nicollier
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All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
Author:
Nichelle Nichols
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Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Author:
Bob Ney
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
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John Newman
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Author:
Barnett Newman
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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.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.
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Ricky Nelson
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I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.
Author:
Nelly
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Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."
Author:
Joe Namath
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
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Dave Mustaine
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
Author:
Patrick Murray
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You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Author:
Roger Mudd
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Author:
Van Morrison
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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Author:
William Morris
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
Author:
George Mitchell
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Author:
Gabriela Mistral
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I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
Author:
David Milne
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Author:
A. Milne
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Author:
Kate Millett
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
Author:
Zell Miller
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I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
Author:
Keith Miller
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Author:
John Mill
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
Author:
John Mill
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Author:
Harvey Milk
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My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.
Author:
Harvey Milk
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
Author:
Harvey Milk
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Author:
Alice Meynell
