Arne Glimcher Quotes

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

I have a funny name.

It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

My name is not 'William Shatner.'

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

I am my own person.

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.