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People's fates are simplified by their names. — Elias Canetti

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right. — Ted Turner

We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me. — Joe King

The people who call you names are just trying to make themselves feel better. They've fucked up too. You're not the only one. — Kody Keplinger

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. — Madeleine L'Engle

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had. — Howie Mandel

Caleb and Aaron - now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned. — John Steinbeck

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names. — Jeff Goldblum

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. — Max Stirner

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ... — Suzanne Collins

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. — Brene Brown

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey. — Riccardo Tisci

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is. — Ioan Gruffudd

This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people." — Jay Leno

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. — Phil McGraw

Broad-streeted Richmond ... The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I sometimes wonder about all of that. Gods, their commands, all the things people do in their names. Is any of it what they really want? — Peter Tieryas

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so. — Maya Angelou

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. — Hunter S. Thompson

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary. — Joni Mitchell

People asked me to change my name for [808s] ... I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special. — Kanye West

When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.' — R.C. Sproul

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point. — Lady Gaga

Taking away people's names denied their power, a lesson Cheris tried not to think about. — Yoon Ha Lee

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests. — Seth

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names? — James Howe

A lot of people change their band names because they're looking for a change of atmosphere. — Justin Vernon

People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore. — Chelsea Handler

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet

He (Marilyn Manson) has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original. — Alice Cooper

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America ... People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.". — Billy Connolly

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. — George Eliot

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with. — James Caan

Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose. — Erin Morgenstern

And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: — Anonymous

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. — Alex Ferguson

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact. — Cecelia Ahern

God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom. — Alistair Begg

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that. — Chris Tucker

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke

I am terrible with people's names. — Rob Lowe

I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people. — Nicki Minaj

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure. — Cindy Sheehan

They were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them. — Neal Stephenson

The danger with mentioning names is that you hurt the feelings of people that you leave out. — Rush Limbaugh

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is. — Abderrahmane Sissako

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. — Gustave Flaubert

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe. — Mark McGwire

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. — Aldrich Ames

It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.] — Casper Smart

It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure. — Busy Philipps

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless. — Malachy McCourt

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. — Tallulah Bankhead

People are always asking me if I'm Lynyrd Skynyrd or which one's Skynyrd, but I always say, 'Who'd ever have a dumb name like that?' — Ed King

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange. — Rupert Grint

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM. — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body? — Don DeLillo

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles. — Robin S. Sharma

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God. — Ozzy Osbourne

Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't? — Nicholas Sparks

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name. — Isla Fisher

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things. — James Meek

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ... — Damien Hirst

None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us. — Kendra L. Saunders

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you. — Mike Thompson

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right. — Mike Tyson

I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray. — Tim Vine

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. — Jamie Farr

I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name. — Mitt Romney

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name. — Betty Eadie

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed. — Noam Chomsky

Not a lot of people know about Tunisia. Sarah Palin thinks it's the name of one of Obama's kids. — Bill Maher

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us. — Jodi Picoult

Just take our name off the list ... The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans ... — Ozzy Osbourne

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people. — Morgan Freeman

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me. — Joni Mitchell

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics. — Geert Wilders

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible. — Nawal El Saadawi

people find names for things they feel the need to talk about. — Guy Deutscher

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings. — Josh Smith

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan

names are a way to keep people in your mind — Maggie Stiefvater

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell

Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's Coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you. — Bobby Knight

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you. — Simon Travaglia

She might have forgotten names and faces and people and events, but she hadn't forgotten emotions. — Anne Stuart

I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. — Josh McDowell

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law. — Albert Parsons

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A.J.P. Taylor

People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine — Jamie Delano

Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names." There — Neil Gaiman

So long as we remember names, so long those people live. — Bernard Cornwell

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. — Oscar Wilde

Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names — Chris Cleave

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products. — Richard Branson

I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me. — Lil B

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there. — Paris Hilton