"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."
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"Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times"
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"I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents."
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"Elementary propositions consist of names."
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"She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?"
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"I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name."
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"Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name."
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"I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk."
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"A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers."
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"What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined."
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"I always saw myself performing on stage and the girls yelling out my name."
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"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?'"
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"if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading"
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"The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics."
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"The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!"
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"When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name."
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"A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused."
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"There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children."
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"If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism."
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"Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion."
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