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Better to see the face than to hear the name.
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Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
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Princess of Wales Diana

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I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.
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Pat Day

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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
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John Carpenter

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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
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Thomas C. Haliburton

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Once you label me you negate me.
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Soren Kierkegaard

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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W. H. Auden

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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
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English Proverb

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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
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Chinese Proverb

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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
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Edward F. Halifax

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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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Marshall Mcluhan

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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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Vachel Lindsay

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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William Shakespeare

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You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
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Deborah Boliver Boehm

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun