- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Quotes
What stays with us, in the words of those who lived it.
These quotes revolve around memory in different forms: the fading magic of a childhood holiday, the messy notes an idea leaves behind, and a specific recollection tied to a major public demonstration decades ago. For more reflections on time passing and looking back, see Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, 'Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up having my first girlfriend when I was 13, and she was obsessed with Justin Bieber. I remember watching the 'Baby' music video and being so jealous of him. So I posted a cover of 'One Time' on YouTube, and she loved it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
- Nov 07, 2020
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
- Watching
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- Nov 07, 2020