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I like naming characters.
Just naming Batistuta gives me goosebumps!
I never had naming rights at Texas Stadium.
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
Naming a bridge after Dr. King was the right thing to do.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.
Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and the powerful are honoured.
I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you relive that '90s kind of sound and experience.
I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.
Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans.
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.
We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.
Without naming names, I definitely think that celebrities nowadays are really having better surgery. It's looking a lot more natural than ever which is really great.
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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.
The UK has no input in Afrobeat. Let me make myself very clear. The UK has no influence in the creation or naming or anything that has to do with Afrobeat' roots or beginnings.
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
My wife is great at giving input for my projects. She's good at naming places, she has pretty good taste in music, and as a model, of course, she's excellent when it comes to lighting.
I believe Judge Kavanaugh is a well-qualified conservative jurist, and I commend President Trump for his commitment to naming Supreme Court justices who are committed to the rule of law.
I was born in Jamaica, my whole family's Jamaican, and they always give me a hard time for being the least Jamaican member of the family. But I think it's their fault for naming me Sarah.
The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.