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Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban?... It didn’t take long for the TV networks to jump on this Walker thing. CBS has a new show: ‘Walker: Taliban Ranger.’ Picture Quote #1

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt Picture Quote #1

I was named after the next-door neighbor’s German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith Picture Quote #1

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I’ve seen, what I know - they’re not all screaming faceless mullahs. It’s disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice Picture Quote #1

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I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries Picture Quote #1

There’s a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He’s the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn’t feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed Picture Quote #1

I was always drawn toward the Actor’s Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]’s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man Picture Quote #1

The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch Picture Quote #1

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn’t be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple Picture Quote #1

Intellectually I’d love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can’t you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one Picture Quote #1

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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he’d done it for a living Picture Quote #1

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader’s Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new Picture Quote #1

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the God of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, God of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet Picture Quote #1

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I’m getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer’s funeral because they all know I’m sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff Picture Quote #1

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You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general Picture Quote #1

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven’t even read Brave New World! Picture Quote #1

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy Picture Quote #1

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction Picture Quote #1

If we’re really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate Picture Quote #1

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, ‘If you’re going to get hit as many times as I’ve been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you’re not going to remember many names.’ Picture Quote #1

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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things Picture Quote #1

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty Picture Quote #1

I’ve named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there’s a raven statue Picture Quote #1

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich Picture Quote #1

The Green Turtle’ was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry Picture Quote #1

Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio Picture Quote #1

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Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban?... It didn’t take long for the TV networks to jump on this Walker thing. CBS has a new show: ‘Walker: Taliban Ranger.’ (Named Quotes) My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Named Quotes) I was named after the next-door neighbor’s German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith (Named Quotes) Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I’ve seen, what I know - they’re not all screaming faceless mullahs. It’s disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named (Named Quotes) 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 (Named Quotes) Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice (Named Quotes) I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries (Named Quotes) There’s a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He’s the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn’t feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed (Named Quotes) I was always drawn toward the Actor’s Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]’s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man (Named Quotes) The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch (Named Quotes) I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn’t be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple (Named Quotes) Intellectually I’d love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can’t you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one (Named Quotes) One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he’d done it for a living. (Named Quotes) At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader’s Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new. (Named Quotes) Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions. (Named Quotes) 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. (Named Quotes) Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the God of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, God of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. (Named Quotes) The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I’m getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer’s funeral because they all know I’m sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff. (Named Quotes) You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general. (Named Quotes) [One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven’t even read Brave New World! (Named Quotes) America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy. (Named Quotes) I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. (Named Quotes) If we’re really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate. (Named Quotes) I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, ‘If you’re going to get hit as many times as I’ve been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you’re not going to remember many names.’ (Named Quotes) The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. (Named Quotes) One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty (Named Quotes) I’ve named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there’s a raven statue. (Named Quotes) I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich. (Named Quotes) The Green Turtle’ was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry. (Named Quotes) Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio (Named Quotes)

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