- Life
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
- Dictum
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first travelled to New York in 1982 on a summer holiday as a student, I remember thinking how exciting it was, how energising it felt, and also how it felt dangerous - it was a place where you could make a wrong turn, either geographically or just in a human interaction, and suddenly find yourself in trouble.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don't.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
- Teachers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
- First Term
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- Nov 07, 2020
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020