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  • We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
  • My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
  • My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.
  • I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
  • Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bob Peterson After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
    Bob Peterson
    American filmmaker, animator and screenwriter
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  • Madonna How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named Madonna. I would either have ended up a nun or this.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Madonna I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barack Obama If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Uecker In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bill Bryson In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Brendon Urie My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bram Cohen My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia...
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billie Lourd She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Tom Morris Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Plutarch They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Burnie Burns Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Betty Buckley Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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