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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly, as a kid, my mother had 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' and used to listen to it over and over and over.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an angry wave in the '70s, a strong feminist angry wave. I remember thinking - oh my God - I thought it was the beginning of something, and it all went quiet.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the Soviet Union and when the Iron Curtain fell down in 1991. I was just 20 years old, and everybody had a dream to live in a modern democratic society, in a modern country. More than 15 years passed, and nothing changed. There's a saying I like very much: if you want a thing done well, do it by yourself.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.
- Nov 07, 2020
If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring - remember, it was a very nascent market. And there was a lot that was unknown about the renewable marketplace in 2004, early 2003, when I was planning on it.
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- Nov 07, 2020