"I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets."
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"Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names."
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"I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk."
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"Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust."
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"It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man."
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"I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name."
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"You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself."
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"And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?"
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"I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at."
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"I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name."
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"Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life."
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"Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat."
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"There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity."
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"My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget."
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"Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris."
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"What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris."
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"My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet."
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"Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he"
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"Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me."
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"But I miss screamin' and fightin' And kissin' in the rain And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name You're so in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you."
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