Lauren DeStefano Quotes

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

I want my name to mean me.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

All names mean something.

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

A name means a lot just by itself.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

I never felt like an Amanda.

Cordae is like my government name. I was like, just be myself. What's a better name than the name my mom gave me, or my pops gave me?

I'm still Lil Xan. You can call me Diego if you want. My second album, I'm going to be full Diego.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.