- Hungry
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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
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippings of the PlayStation, leaving it on his dresser. I remember on Christmas morning, I unwrapped my gift, and sure enough, it was the PS2. I've been a PlayStation guy ever since.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'Mork & Mindy' - it takes no effort at all to conjure, physically, the profound excitement I felt watching these shows in prime time. I remember sitting on the floor, too close to the TV, rapt.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story 'The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat' won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember very vividly going to school, being very happy, and then just having guys there who were just out to make my life miserable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or two places where I had trouble divorcing myself from the reality of the locations because it was filmed in Chicago, and I know that city quite well.
- Banished
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I read in the news that 'Wonder Woman' had been cast, and my heart sank. I had been talking to the studio for so long about doing it, and I was like, 'Well, 'that's that.' I'm sure we wouldn't have made the same choice.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020