Interest from Bayern or Man Utd? It is greatly flattering to hear those names, and I even ask myself if that is really about me.
I’m not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company’s internal jargon.
It’s not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.
I don’t think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
It’s a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
My role models weren’t holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.
I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in ’69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands’ names.
Shamir and Nasir were my homeboys. They were from Philly and they’re Muslim. I’m not a Muslim, but I liked their names. They were like, ‘your name starts with an N, so just come up with Nahmir.’ So I just put ‘Nah’ in front of ‘Amir.’
Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
I love Korean food, and it’s kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn’t tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
I went to see ‘The Greatest Dancer’ when it was filmed in Birmingham. And they announced the show’s judges’ names and then Curtis’ name. The crowd went wild.
Most people when they go to Vegas want to go to places on the Strip and experience the big names. Actually in Las Vegas, I find the best restaurants are off the Strip.
Dana White hides behind a microphone and behind a TV camera and spouts off and calls people names because he doesn’t like their opinion.
When you’re on, like, NBC, or – I don’t want to call out any names. But when you’re on bigger networks, they just want to find something that sticks and aren’t really necessarily trying to develop anything. On TV Land, they’ve developed ‘The Exes.’
I always think when you’re in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you’re in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names – that’s what you want.
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up ‘brutal’ in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it’s under the guise of wanting to change the actor’s habit – wanting to break bad habits and replace them with brand-new ones you can use for the rest of your career.
Wrestling isn’t easy. It’s like a car crash. I wish they would give guys a few weeks off. I think guys need to take mandatory time off. I know it’s tough when they need to promote the key names, but they need to keep guys healthy.
I always liked ‘Johnny Blaze,’ but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had ‘Johnny Spade,’ and that name sucked, then I had ‘Johnny Nitro.’ Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names.
Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Some guys’ names I love announcing.
Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.
Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.
Of course it’s fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who’ve never met me, who don’t know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he’s just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.
I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don’t mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they’re gonna become losers.
We accidentally gave my boys ‘Ninja Turtle’ names. I can promise you that Michelangelo and Donatello will not be coming out of me.
What doesn’t allow us to move forward because when we simply – and I’ve seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me – is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible – like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.
My little scam in April ’85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here’s some names of some people we’ve recruited.
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
I only knew one thing about policemen: they were inhuman beasts. The problem was how to turn them into likable, sympathetic human beings. The answer was simple. Give them head colds. And first names. And keep their dialogue homey and conversational.
I’m very close to my family. Not like these big stars – not mentioning any names – who lose the plot and don’t know who they are.
There’s probably 30 or 40,000 domain names associated with my name. Very few of them I have had anything to do with.
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.
I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best out of me.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods – barmcake, bap or bun anyone?
I don’t generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant.
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it’s about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I’ve always been comfortable with being gay.
At its best, MTV puts a face to the names, if you know what I mean. I think if you can take the expression of a song much farther, that’s great. And it’s one of the only outlets there is for artistic filmmaking. But it’s a double-edged sword. At it’s worst, MTV is just a lot of TV commercials for songs.
Without naming names, I definitely think that celebrities nowadays are really having better surgery. It’s looking a lot more natural than ever which is really great.
I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.
Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won’t be using long words.
It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma.
Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I’ve seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
I feel for people with crazy names. It’s been a challenge, but if that’s my struggle, I can live with it.
That’s just part of being in ‘X-Men.’ There’s, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you’re happy for anything you can get.
