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" 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. "
Matt Taibbi
" A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can! "
Chris Roberson
" About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow. "
Lois Tilton
" A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in? "
Charles Dance
" According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life. "
Bill Gates
" A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest. "
Elle Macpherson
" A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. "
Isaac Hayes
" A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, 'Zinger!' It's just stuck in my head that I don't like that name. "
Kristaps Porzingis
" A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore. "
Adam Rodriguez
" A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad. "
Guy Kawasaki
" A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name. "
John Madden
" A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up. "
John Gourley
" Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all. "
John Boyega
" Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined. "
Mitchell Zuckoff
" Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. "
St. Jerome
" Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. "
Hannah Arendt
" Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name. "
Dennis Flanagan
" Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam. "
Zak Orth
" Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke. "
Keke Palmer
" Actually Maddy is my name. But I feel that whenever you address somebody, there needs to be certain amount of dignity rendered to it - irrespective of whether it's a film star or somebody you are fond of. I find it very pleasing when somebody refers to me as 'Mr. Madhavan' or 'Sir' or 'Mr. Maddy.' "
R. Madhavan
" Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai. "
Mona Singh
" Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea. "
Rita Moreno
" Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future. "
John Gokongwei
" Actually, when I say my name in the U.S., people are like 'You're Elsa from Frozen!' And I'm like, I can't break their hearts, 'I could be!' "
Elsa Hosk
" A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name. "
Bob Parsons
" Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men. "
Harry Lloyd
" A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. "
Boris Becker
" A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point. "
T. E. Lawrence
" African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name. "
Soledad O'Brien
" After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name. "
Suzi Quatro
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