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Quotes About Name

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'
~ Pete Buttigieg
I've heard every pronunciation ever, but the worst was when I was in New York for a radio show at some restaurant. On the door it said, 'Now appearing: Kard Kiard.'
~ Karch Kiraly
'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.
~ Ricky Schroder
If you think about it, it's the worst stage name that anybody can possibly think of, because it sounds ridiculous, but it's my real name.
~ Randy Rainbow
'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
There were absolutely times in my life when I tried to get people to call me Robert.
~ Beto O'Rourke
I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
~ Amiri Baraka
People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.
~ Prakash Raj
I'm a lead singer of a band, and that's so enough. It's not like I need to have my name on everything. The new name 'Scandal, Featuring Patty Smyth' was just to make it clear that I wasn't leaving the group.
~ Patty Smyth
When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.
~ Wes Craven
Who doesn't love scoring the basketball? That's kind of the name of the game.
~ Robin Lopez
Love is God's secret name.
~ Alex Grey
I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, 'You have an audition for Marvel, no one's letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That's all we know.' And I went, 'OK, well, I think it will probably be 'Thor,' because Taika's got it.'
~ Rachel House
My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson. I just loved the power of that, of being able to put a letter on the page and that letter meaning something.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I'm fine with their name being close to ours.
~ Ken Xie
It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.
~ Brendon Urie
A lot of NBA GMs have asked me about me why I changed my middle name to Trill. Actually, the reason why I filed the paperwork to change my name was so that I could officially add my mother's last name, Stein, to my own. My mom is my best friend, and I wanted to honor her.
~ Willie Cauley-Stein
I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.
~ Marc Jacobs
My detective just told me, 'Seriously, you are in danger and you have to change all your information.' But I said no because my name, Park Yeon-mi, is my legacy from my father, that's the only one he just left me. I'm very proud of my name so that's why if I die I'm ok.
~ Park Yeon-mi
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
~ Bertrand Russell
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
~ J. B. Smoove
You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn." "Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.
~ Peter Lerangis