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    I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."

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Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the line:
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Ah! replied my gentle fair,
Beloved, what are names but air?
Choose thou, whatever suits the line:
Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,
Call me Lalage, or Doris,
Only, only, call me thine.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found in: Names Quotes,
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what read more

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.

by Madonna Found in: Names Quotes,
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There be of them that have left a name behind them.

There be of them that have left a name behind them.

by Bible Found in: Names Quotes,
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Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."

Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."

by Charles Dickens Found in: Names Quotes,
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It read more

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Names Quotes,
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Call a spade a spade.

Call a spade a spade.

by Robert Burton Found in: Names Quotes,
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Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name.

by Thomas Campbell Found in: Names Quotes,
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

by Ian Williams Found in: Names Quotes,
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

by William Drummond (1) Found in: Names Quotes,
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