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"Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility."
"Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride."
"I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me."
"It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?"
"I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea"
"If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres."
"I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams."
"Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together."
"That girl can barely spell her name."
"When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do."
"Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil."
"I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe."
"When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she thought. Then it came to her - the name of the song and all its lyrics just as she had heard it many times before. She sat on the edge of the bed thinking, 'There aren't any more new songs and I have sung all the ones there are. I have sung them all. I have sung all the songs there are."
"Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name."
"There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine."
"Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words."
"And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer."
"I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts."
"Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests."
"Seeing, despite the name, isn’t merely visual."
