Named Quotes
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Name Quotes
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover
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John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet ...
Charles W. Colson
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I`m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
Keywords: depression :: distinction :: ever :: for :: had :: has :: him :: named :: of :: only :: person :: the :: whoSubject: History QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
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I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210` and ‘Models Inc.` At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.
Paris Hilton
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I`ve always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
Howard Stern
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[on seeing Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and becoming determined to be an actor] He made it seem something natural.
Gene Hackman
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You`ve given an aging suburban dad the ego-boost of a lifetime. (On being named People magazine`s Sexiest Man Alive 2007)
Matt Damon
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Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can`t help it, but, it is troubling.
Marlon Brando
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My first kiss was with the most chivalrous little boy I ever met in my life. It was in kindergarten. There was this kid who was really a jerk, and he wouldn`t let me get on the school bus. He was about to hit me when this little boy named Nicky shoved me ...
Christina Ricci
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Part of me believes in anonymous art. I got that from a writer named Jamake Highwater, who wrote about painting before the Renaissance. The way people related to art in, say, ancient Greece. How it was about the community for the community and not the sel...
Gus Van Sant
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I was called Sean long before I was an actor, I had an Irish buddy when I was 12 named Seamus -- pronounced Shay-mus. So they nicknamed us Seamus and Shawn and it stuck.
Sean Connery
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[on Vivien Leigh] Parts seem to haunt more actresses than actors. Poor darling Vivien was very much haunted. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) didn`t do her any good at all.
Laurence Olivier
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[On one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)] "Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal aggressiveness that I h...
Marlon Brando
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I did my first job as an actor and my first role was in 1978 in Rome. I did a play with an Italian actor named Victor Cavallo who worked with Bernardo Bertolucci. After that I was very much a part of the New York performance art and underground theater an...
Vincent Gallo
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My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We`d had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn`t even look her in the eye to t...
Leonardo DiCaprio
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A kid named Joey lived across the street from me once, and he`d push snow in my face before school. I could never do anything about it, because I was a girl and real small. But after about a week, I got real pissed off. So I had two friends hold him on a ...
Pat Benatar
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A woman, who shall remain nameless, said to me, `You`re going to love LA, Paul, because over here ambition is not a dirty word.` And I thought, `Well, you`ve named one of the things that I feel quite patriotic about.` It`s still a little bit embarrassing ...
Paul Bettany
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My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.
Lark Voorhies
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[When asked the most outrageous thing that`s happened to him since becoming famous] "Meeting kids who have been named Diego because of me. It`s like [I want to say to the parents], "Oh, why are you doing that? If you`re my fan, it`s your problem, but it`s...
Diego Luna
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Madonna Ciccone
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My dad said he had a teacher named Epatha who was influential in keeping him in school. But my mother said it was an old girlfriend of his. So that`s why she stuck in the Sharon Epatha. That`s what the "S" stands for. Everyone knows now because some numbs...
S. Epatha Merkerson
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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.
Rock Hudson
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[on Tucker Carlson and his show]: You may have heard that I went onto a TV show on CNN called "Crossfire" (1982), which I suppose is a debate show named after the stray bullets that strike and kill innocent bystanders during a gang fight. I said some pret...
Jon Stewart
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I was ecstatic when they re-named `French Fries` as `Freedom Fries.` Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp
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Intellectually I`d love to play Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" . . . Can`t you just imagine me down in the streets yelling, "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.
Roddy McDowall
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I did Harold Pinter`s first play, "The Room". Harold was an actor named David Baron. He said, "I`m going to write". I said, "Oh yeah, it`ll be nice". He said, "But I don`t want to get mixed up with being an actor. I`m going to write with my real name". I ...
Michael Caine
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Never play cards with a guy named Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom`s. And never have sex with anybody who has more problems than you do.
Sharon Stone
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Indiana means home to me. It is a town for me to cling to, because my mother and father are here. I was born and reared here. I have a great love and pride for Indiana. I love every bit of it. - Upon being named a Pennsylvania Ambassador by Governor James...
Jimmy Stewart
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