I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
I took your name when I took those vows I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.
I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
