Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator."
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Nicknames
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Lucy Hawking
Author, Journalist
"I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."
Jay London
Comedian
"After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride."
Jennifer Lee
Filmmaker
"If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it."
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"Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus.""
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"My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title."
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"At present our only true names are nicknames."
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"Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname."
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"At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl."
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"Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy"
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"persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy"
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"None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore."
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"What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten."
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