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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
• You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates
• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. — Rachel Weisz
• The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian… — William Butler Yeats
• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties… — Thomas Ligotti

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