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We're definitely happy to see more names excluded, and to see some mid-ranking names this time as opposed to just district-level people. But there's still widespread disappointment that the big names are not on there.


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JASON KIDD A dog with big names does not live to see many day.
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JANNE NIINIMAA All these names are bigger-than-life names, ... When you see their actual letters and their notebook...
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ELAINE ROBERTS These are household names that everyone will love to see and that we are proud to present.
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AUDLEY HARRISON We are just letting everybody in the community know that this is a possibility if they want to see t...
FLORENCE PATERNO It's not uncommon to get seven-figure gifts from names in this community that aren't household names...
DON LANG The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND There are a few marquee names that everyone will recognize. Some worked with a wink and a nod with t...
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RON JOHNSON Because all the great names are taken...some of the names are made up now,
JASON VINES Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market...
ETHAN MCAFEE Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names...
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EMMYLOU HARRIS Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
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JENNIFER LENHART The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented.
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DAVE WALKER Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep atta...
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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There are lots of eBay account information and names and addresses of the people owning those accoun...
ALEX ECKELBERRY There are lots of eBay account information and names and addresses of the people owning those accoun...
ALEX ECKELBERRY There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dign...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The boys were very happy when the president spoke to them with their names.
G.S. WALIA There's no oversight over the names. We know names are added hastily, and when you have a name-based...
TIM SPARAPANI All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI People really have to take a step back and look at what happened in Hong Kong and Japan in December....
ROBERT SASAKI When you see something with the names - it's more personal. Very moving, very sad.
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A.J. PIERZYNSKI So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
JOAN ARK So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
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ERIC HAUSLER It's still an event that you need to be aware of. There's still a lot of activity in these names. Ac...
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NICK CANNON People were just realizing that some of these under-the-radar, smaller-type names had built pretty s...
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MIKE ANDERSON I cannot mention names, I'm not allowed to. But we're pursuing some things.
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MINDY KALING The sell-off in the bond markets, not only here, but in global bonds, is scaring a lot of investors....
MICHAEL STRAUSS We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their nam...
JOHN CONYERS They're just names that you would question as to how come there were so many people of those origins...
KARLA ESLINGER The names are mine, but they're not me.
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MATT SILVERMAN Some people need something to have something against. Their names? Haters.
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NEIL GAIMAN Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall...
PETER J. TOMASI It comes down to knowing what you are doing out there. There are guys there, not naming any names, b...
DALE EARNHARDT JR Not to name names,
BOB BRENLY There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we...
LOUIS STOKES It feel great. There are a lot of great names on this trophy and I am just thrilled to death that I ...
LOREN ROBERTS Thousands of names of voters and many of the names of candidates were dropped off (registration) lis...
MOHAMMED DAHLAN If these files are as full as people say, they are going to get more names and so it's become a larg...
HUGO YOUNG Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
AUGUSTINE HIPPO Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an...
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SHERRY SYLVESTER You can see those (Holy Names) kids eat, sleep and breathe basketball.
HOWARD AVRIL Hopefully, one year, we will not have to read any more names at this event.
FRANK SULLIVAN It's very unfair for Barry when there are other guys who could be talked about and ripped -- because...
LARRY WALKER It puts you in front of an industry crowd, meaning bands get more publicity and more attention. It's...
JASON KULBEL Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, an...
BEATRIX POTTER names are a way to keep people in your mind
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We'll have to see if all the search players decide to buy companies with cute little names.
GARY STEIN Anderson and McDermott were two names I was told are high on the list.
ANDY KATZ The markets are still very defensive in tone. Airlines are still being hit quite sharply. But we saw...
KHURAM CHAUDHRY The markets are still very defensive in tone. Airlines are still being hit quite sharply. But we saw...
KHURAM CHAUDHRY A lot of it is strictly media speculation. There are all kinds of names thrown out there. Ted (Thomp...
BOB HARLAN What I want to do is see my team perform the best they can and see what happens, and I don't think t...
JACK MAUGHAN It is not uncommon for angels to take corporeal form, to appear before us on earth as people with na...
MICHAEL PATERNITI It's strange to look around the room and see the names. I think we'll have an awesome team.
PATRIK STEFAN I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. Th...
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WALLY SCHIRRA Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink f...
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JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON Names and labels are what we use to identify, not to divide.
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ALEXANDER HENDERSON The sisters and others, I have their names. But I have a Kristin and a Kirsten, those two names righ...
JAMES GREER It is still too early to own ground transportation names.
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BRIAN CLIFFORD There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
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JOANNA LUMLEY The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
JOANNA KRUPA One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don...
JOANNA CASSIDY The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
JOANNA RUSS There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually...
JOANNA LUMLEY As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old characte...
JOANNA LUMLEY I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all...
JOANNA LUMLEY There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is th...
JOANNA LUMLEY There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but ...
JOANNA LUMLEY I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o...
JOANNA LUMLEY In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food eve...
JOANNA LUMLEY How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they...
JOANNA SCOTT It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS What did we talk about?

I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got c...
JOANNA RUSS A pretty woman, not a bother? As far as he knew, that was the very definition of the word.
JOANNA SHUPE If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty, either.
JOANNA GAINES I always thought that the “thriving” would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned ...
JOANNA GAINES Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or ti...
JOANNA GAINES