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- When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates
- Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. — Russell Brand
- There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — Christopher Hitchens
- You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party… — Antonio Villaraigosa
- One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away… — Nicholson Baker
- There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but… — Lily Collins
- In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are… — Anne Enright
- It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got… — Julian McMahon