Named Quotes
817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors
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There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to…
— Charles Duhigg
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
— Gary Sinise
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
— Hannah Kearney
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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must…
— John Updike
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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by…
— John Updike
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Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a…
— Annie Jacobsen
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On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee…
— Joe Biden
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There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called…
— Jake Roberts
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Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.
— Tom Douglas
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I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he…
— Morris Gleitzman
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to…
— Jim Cooper
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world.…
— Jim C. Hines
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very…
— Dale T. Mortensen
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The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and…
— Mary Doria Russell
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In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named…
— Mike McCue
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as…
— Kabir Bedi
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I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama.…
— Mo'Nique
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I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I…
— Peter Barris
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Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in…
— Siri Hustvedt
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First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of…
— Damien Chazelle
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The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt…
— Richard Flanagan
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The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There…
— Scott Haze
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This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
— Rasmus Lerdorf
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The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
— George A. Romero
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I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
— Sibel Edmonds
Who Wrote These Named Quotes
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