Who names themselves ‘The Situation?’ I do not take myself seriously like that – not in the least bit – that would be so pretentious.
A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads. The companies create these entities with fake names – like ‘Citizens for Nice Puppies’ – which means that the sources of the money are unaccountable.
My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.
Genres are just names.
The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.
I remember, growing up, it wasn’t sexy to be African. We got called names.
People just want the hottest records. It’s not really about all the names attached to the project. It’s about the work.
I first saw ‘The Dinner Party’ in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.
Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
Our business is all about helping someone – a founder, a CEO – building a great business. It’s not about seeing our names in the press.
If you’re indexing to the S&P 500, you’re buying the most expensive names in the market.
I don’t want to single anyone out. I’ll just say that there are a lot of not good band names out there.
It’s true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to score them.
I don’t want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
I’m, like, really bad at remembering names.
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.
I have stacks and stacks of journals. I’ll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.
Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don’t write their own songs. Lot of top male artists and boy band artists, they don’t write their own songs. They’re just a product. They sell, they sell, they sell. They don’t care about musical integrity, any of that kind of stuff.
In entertainment, whether it’s movies or television or whatever, I’m a great audience, but I don’t remember the names of the people I’ve seen or the groups that I’ve heard.
People’s fates are simplified by their names.
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
Putting up a great performance against Lamont Peterson will skyrocket me. The goal is to become the No. 1 welterweight in the division, so if I keep beating these guys around me and then fight Keith Thurman, people will rate me as No. 1 because I’ve beat the top names, and he’s been inactive.
Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.
Big names and banners bring a lot of visibility to your work and it creates more opportunities for you.
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You’re going to get your three or four scenes; you’re not going to be able to show what you can do.
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
I’ve had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they’d dated the men they dated before they picked up their guitars, things would have been different. I’m not trying to name drop, but I’ve had this conversation with Cher, too, who has more last names than Zsa Zsa.
I get worked up over an ‘idea’ or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often – if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.
It’s always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
I don’t know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.
I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that’s where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the ‘jazz’ category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.
Mixed martial arts, UFC, or what have you, I don’t think it has anything to do with rankings. It doesn’t have to do with ‘this guy beat this guy so he deserves a title shot.’ It might be like that every once in a while, but this is entertainment and the two biggest names – the best story.
Superstar – I mean, when I think of superstar, I think of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, names like that. I don’t know if I can put myself in that category.
It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.
Some people say heroines just have to look good and provide the glamour. Some say, from dance-n-song routines, heroines have come a long way. Today, the heroine’s name adds weight to the film, though maybe they can’t carry the whole film on their names. I believe, yes, we do contribute a lot to films.
Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany’s final fate is at stake.
The Well taught us how to create a civilized space for debate, speak in our own voices, use our real names, mediate flame wars, and boot trolls. Brand’s mantra was, ‘You own your own words,’ meaning you have the right to say your piece but must also take responsibility for what you say.
I don’t go by brand names for directors.
I don’t know why I keep saying this, and I don’t know why I keep using their names… And I’m not dogging them. I’m not slandering them. I’m not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.
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.
My novel ‘Wolf Brother’ is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.
Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don’t even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
Simeone, De Boer, Van Basten – fantastic names to have worked with.
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn’t always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine – they’re more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
Italy won the world title in 2006 and went out in the group phase in 2010 and 2014. They didn’t make it beyond the first round. You don’t win things because of your history, the shirt, or the names on the teamsheet.
