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I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?
When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'
The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.
I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.
When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.
I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.
We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.
And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
I hope at some point in my career when my name is mentioned, someone will say "Oh yeah he has a good song!" I'd be happy with that.
When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.
Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.
No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.
In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.
I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."
Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
The Vedas inform us that because God is absolute, there is no difference between God the person and His holy name; the name is God.
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.