- I Remember
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.
- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, ‘I'm never going to live anywhere else.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching Regis and Kathie Lee interview celebrities, and my mom looked so happy. I just did the math. I wanted to make my mom happy, and I wanted to talk to celebrities. Basically, I wanted Kathie Lee's job!
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember bossing my younger siblings around and making them put on shows and skits with me.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020