Quotes with name-calling

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  • Cab Calloway Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bruno Mars Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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  • Francis Bacon For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • C. Wright Mills For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
    Source: The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • John Mason Brown Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Lord Jeffrey Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
    Lord Jeffrey
     
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Dylan Thomas Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Ben Jonson Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Henry Drummond He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • James Howell He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
    James Howell
    English-Welsh historian and writer (1594 - 1666)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ben E. King He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Daisy Ashford Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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