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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
- Assuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.
- Bathing Suit
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020