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“I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.”

Made Today Remember Opinion Laughing Sexy Abortion Capture Cynical Public Opinion Slogans Catchy

Author:Bernard Nathanson

“I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]”

Years Remember Waiting My Own Laughing Generations Goes On Terrible Boredom Relief

Author:Julian Barnes

“I remember laying naked next to you Kissing places you hide from others”

Sex Lovers Sexuality Kissing Quotes Naked Beauty

Author:Richard L. Ratliff

“I remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it in Jewish day school. Although I was quite young, I remember making these vows to myself such as, I'm never going to love my country so much that I can't leave in a moment's notice.”

Thinking I Can Country Moments School Remember Young Video Holocaust Terrified Vow Graphic Kindergarten

Author:Jill Soloway

“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.”

Long School Earth Together Beautiful Remember Courses Names Language Sides Enemy Building Strange My Family Ugly Odd Australia Sophisticated Supple Schadenfreude

Author:Anna Funder

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part.”

Writing Stills Remember Guy Nice Dad Tests My Dad Sat Wheels Drivers Lap Really Nice Exam Brake

Author:Garry Shandling

“I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.”

Thinking Knows Remember Literature Waiting Walks Baby Let Me Leaving Hospitals License Hospitality Beans

Author:Anne Tyler

“I remember leaving the session so annoyed I hadn’t asked your name. I searched through the stuff Tom gave me and found it. I thought it was God’s really bizarre sense of humor that you had the same name as my Justin.” My Justin? I blinked and something strong and tender unfurled inside.”

Love Kane Justin Jones

Author:Anyta Sunday

Source: DJ Dangerfield

“I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena.”

Remember Doors Expression Hair Blue Shoes Mess Alex Lace Sneakers

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.”

Made Remember Comedy Scene Laughter Cameras Scripts Video Confused Nerd Sean Combs

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.”

Thinking Giving Writing Stories Age School Remember High School Grades Fourth Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I remember listening to an interview with Beyonce and she talked about how she and her husband, Jay-Z, have always made it a point to have the conversation about them be about their music, not about their business, not about their personal business.”

Made Remember Listening Husband Conversation Made It Interviews Beyonce Personal Business

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.”

Years Remember Listening My Friends Toronto Cubes

Author:Scott Speedman

“I remember listening to like gospel-y blues tunes. I'd just listen to the rhythm and the music was upbeat. Always upbeat if you get like a good rhythm you can nod your head. You just feel good. But then when you listen to the lyrics it was quite sad.”

Remember Listening Feel Good Rhythm Just Listen Upbeat

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'”

Thinking Looks Said Done Remember Faces Sound Car Figures Listening Dad Horror Notes My Dad Miles Piano Grades Wow Acceptable Exam Cocky

Author:Laura Mvula

“I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.”

Years Remember Used Stuff Talking Crazy Listening Understood Damn Sugar

Author:Schoolboy Q

“I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.”

People Thinking Feels Writing May Made Hard Kids Remember Song Listening Findings Radio Peaceful Hard Life I May Not Be

Author:Chris Isaak

“I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.”

Littles Remember Yukon

Author:Robert W. Service

“I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.”

Love Heart Littles Dream Remember House Break My Heart One Day Down And Little Things Coming Out Gestures Tied Cried Bent Undone Breaking My Heart Shoelaces

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.”

Thinking Book School Remember Fronts Painting High School Genuine Sculpture

Author:Joe Bradley

“I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can't speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was - that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life... My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn't see him for a long time. He didn't try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos.”

Want Writing Trying Long I Can Helping Remember Mother Guy Lost Speak Term Journey Effects Dad Long Time Chaos My Dad Overwhelmed

Author:Tom Cruise

“I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.”

Thinking Moments Bigs Remember Universe Dark Sky Chaos

Author:St. Vincent

“I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.”

Thinking Knows Two Bigs Remember Guy Fit Size Suits Looking Back Wearing A Suit Photo Of Me

Author:Talib Kweli

“I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.”

Want Years Remember Realizing Couple Years Ago Magazines

Author:Leighton Meester

“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

Remember Sound Our Lives Lessons Live By Music Lessons

Author:John Cage

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

“I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.”

Remember Lying Next Morning Walking One Day Naps Lying Down

Author:April Winchell

“I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.”

Remember Lying Cold Red Warm Snow Spots

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

Source: Shiver

“I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that.”

Whole Remember Behinds Hair Hills Fancy Worldview Soundtracks Salons Beverly Hills

Author:David Salle

“I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.”

Remember Felt Forget Happened Reflection Vow

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I remember making up songs in my head.”

Remember Song Making Up

Author:Kenny Chesney

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”

People Persons Remember Mad Scared Manners Reticence

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.”

Ifs Matter Play Wanted Remember Night Games Cutting Fields Knives Humidity Wrigley Field

Author:Gary Carter

“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.”

People Years Wells Said Moments Reality Remember Force Challenges Wall Years Ago Exile Shrines Lama Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.”

Remember Used Black Marvin

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.”

Stills Remember Found Caves Email Affinity Tibet

Author:Daniel O'Sullivan

“I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.”

Children Remember Mother Office Meetings North Korea Korean Bushism Funny Bush Oval North Korean

Author:George W. Bush

“I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.”

Firsts Remember First Time Meetings Likes Jimmy Jimmy Stewart

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.”

Knows World Years Would Be Today Remember Goal Computer Chess Champion Beaten

Author:Konrad Zuse

“I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.”

Way Feels Wells Said Play Remember Guy Asking Competition Hey Jagger

Author:Bobby Vinton

“I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.”

Old Woman Trout

Author:Richard Brautigan

Source: Trout Fishing in America

“I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.”

Lasts Remember Stuff Week Rocks Rock And Roll

Author:Rosemary Clooney

“I remember Mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God.”

Ends Remember Mom

Author:Kayla Mueller

“I remember most clearly when a teenage Christopher spat in my face. He said, "I hate you". It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't.”

Said Hard Remember Faces Hate I Hate Teenage Hate You I Hate You Spats

Author:Joan Crawford

“I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot”

Remember Mother Poet Inventor

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.”

Wells Remember Father Like You Treats Treated Daddy Mayer

Author:Jackie Cooper

“I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.”

Family Mothers Inheritance

Author:Helen Oyeyemi

Source: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“I remember music first artists second.”

Firsts Remember Artist

Author:Tina Turner

“I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.”

Ifs Men Should Has Beens Enough Remember Careers Fate Should Have Bars Agents Should Have Been Torches Quirky Sidekicks

Author:Whitney Cummings

“I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.”

Thinking Remember Girl Three Found Roles Four Ass Agents Tested Great Times Other Girl

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.”

Care Remember Changed Hair Broken Cost Don't Care I Don't Care My Boyfriend Broken Up

Author:Gwen Stefani

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