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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I don't have any nicknames. -- Sally Ride
I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. -- Steve Sabol
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. -- Thomas Paine
Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names. -- Chespirito
Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. -- Ernie Harwell
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios. -- Snoop Dogg
I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed. -- Vanessa Hudgens
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After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. -- Jay London
Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size. -- Doris Lessing
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike. -- Edna Ferber
I don't need any nicknames. -- Victor Cruz
My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones. -- Ellen Barkin
Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname. -- Alan Alda
My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.' -- Dane Cook
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. -- William Hazlitt
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. -- Earl Monroe
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. -- William Hazlitt
I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. -- Ellen Page
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable. -- Carrot Top
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. -- Richard Roeper
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. -- Charles Eastman
When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames. -- Pierce Brown
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. -- Charles Eastman
When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten. -- Joaquin Phoenix
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing. -- John Legend
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. -- Matthew Arnold
My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big. -- Satchel Paige
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
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. -- William Hazlitt
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends. -- Michael J. Massimino
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames. -- Taye Diggs
My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. -- Henry Louis Gates
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' -- Joe Klein
In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. -- Kerry Washington
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something. -- Mamie Gummer
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her. -- James Franco
At present our only true names are nicknames. -- Henry David Thoreau
Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him. -- Frank Caliendo
You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other. -- Richelle Mead
I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames. -- Toni Morrison
I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it. -- Paul Walker
I abhor television. Notice how i said "?television' and not "?TV' because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine. -- Nick Valensi
The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening. -- Richelle Mead
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions. -- Vita Sackville-West
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. -- Thomas Paine

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