„Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It’s like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.“
— Gloria Steinem
„I like my name. My parents were in the Uffizi Gallery looking at a Leonardo Da Vinci when my mom felt me kick. That's how I got my name. My parents were real hippies.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio
„Most days I wake up thinking I'm the luckiest bastard alive.“
— Linus Torvalds
„Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.“
— Gloria Steinem
„I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did."“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.“
— Thomas Sowell
„I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.“
— Angelina Jolie