Nicknames Quotes
107 Nicknames quotes by 91 unique authors
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In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
— Snoop Dogg
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I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me…
— Eliza Coupe
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Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito,…
— Sharlto Copley
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid'…
— Gary Carter
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I don't need any nicknames.
— Victor Cruz
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I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
— Creed Bratton
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Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.
— Snoop Dogg
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I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
— Jimmie Johnson
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Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
— John Lydon
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My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
— Booboo Stewart
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I don't mind being called 'Supernova.' If one nickname is going to stick, that's not a bad one!
— Natalia Vodianova
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A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the…
— Matthew Arnold
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My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot.…
— James Franco
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My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va.,…
— Henry Louis Gates
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
— Dane Cook
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I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch…
— Willem Dafoe
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do…
— William Hazlitt
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate…
— Vanessa Hudgens
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I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
— Rashida Jones
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the…
— Joe Klein
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John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
— John Legend
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John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man…
— John Legend
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
— Thomas Paine
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My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon…
— Satchel Paige
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