Name Quotes
A name carries more history than it seems.
These quotes explore names from a few sides - living with a name that carries an unusual meaning, the messy improvised way band names actually get chosen, and the pride of having your name tied to a brand you believe in. See I Am Quotes for related themes.
I head a Salt-n-Pepa song one time, where they named every rapper in New York. And they didn't name us!
Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative...
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.
There are a lot of hardcore 'Napoleon' fans, and they do the research and find photos of what I look like when I'm not 'Kip-ified.' Those fans recognize me. It happens maybe once a week, where someone will come up...
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
When my name is called I'm going to go in there and give it everything I've got.
You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.
Any time you get a Hall of Fame player that even knows my name, you're going to be pumped up about that.
When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical...
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in...
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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