“I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.” PeopleFirstsBigsRememberYoungSingingDancingTunesHallsRemember WhenHighlightsArmstrongTrombone Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“It's an exciting time to be in television, and it's a really exciting time to be on a Netflix show. I remember when Netflix first came out, I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back.” FirstsShowsRememberTelevisionHusbandExcitingMy HusbandRemember WhenDvdsNetflixMailing Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.” SaidRememberImpossibleHollywoodMissionsLots Of MoneyRemember WhenHong KongMission Impossible Author:William Mapother
“Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.” AgeRememberTeenagerWowRemember WhenNothing New Author:Ginuwine
“I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.” LongI CanRememberAsksCatholicPopeRemember WhenRhetoricalLegitRhetorical Question Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump did question Ted Cruz's evangelical credentials. Remember when Trump said, "How can somebody who lies as much as Ted Cruz lies be an evangelical Christian?"” SaidChristianRememberLyingTrumpRemember WhenEvangelicalCruzCredentials Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.” KnowsGivingStoriesRememberParentShotsTerrifiedRemember WhenVitaminsBoostMermaidGarlandsDoing Me Author:Winona Ryder
“I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.” LittlesRememberWatchesObsessedRemember WhenLittle WomenHepburnHeathers Author:Winona Ryder
“I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.” FirstsBookHomeRememberSkinsMagazinesRemember WhenNerd Author:Winona Ryder
“I did apply to get a job, many times, but no one ever hired me. I think my hyperactive nature didn't score me any points, and I remember when I went for interviews, I would ask all the questions - this probably confused the people who were hiring.” PeopleThinkingJobsRememberAsksConfusedInterviewsScoreRemember WhenHiring Author:Ronnie Apteker
“I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.” WantTryingSometimesRememberYoungMotherFatherPlansDiedFlatsLots Of MoneyRemember WhenFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Cate Blanchett
“I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.” PeopleThinkingWritingPersonsSaidMatterRememberMotherSecretWiseStrangerMemoirWorriedRemember WhenWise Person Author:Katy Lederer
“I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.” ThinkingRememberFatherVoiceChurchSingingIncrediblesConsistentlyRemember WhenFranklin Author:Stevie Wonder
“I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.” FirstsFeelingsInspirationWantedRememberStuffTypeProjectsInspiredMoodRemember WhenNew OrleansCreole Author:Rodney Jerkins
“I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".” PeopleKnowsMenSaidRememberPowerfulTearsSceneShotsLunchRemember When Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music to commercials and sell out for all intents and purposes. It doesn't really matter.'” ShouldMatterBigsRememberPurposeCommunityHappenedSellsRemember WhenLicense Author:DJ Shadow
“All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.” FirstsStoriesRememberBrotherDadBeatsFirst TimeBoardsMy BrotherMy SisterBrothers And SistersRemember WhenCheckers Author:Terry Gross
“I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore.” IfsWantGivingRememberTurnsCompanyGrowing UpGrowingThese DaysRemember WhenDepositsToasters Author:Mohamed El-Erian
“I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.” YearsTodayRememberGamesLevelsPlayerYears AgoInternationalNineNbaTwelveRemember WhenEighteen Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“I remember when Samuel Okwaraji died on the field, I was mute and I didn't even know what I was doing or what I was saying.” KnowsRememberFieldsDiedRemember WhenMute Author:Stephen Keshi
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.” PeopleYearsLongRealRememberTurnsDealsFourTrumpPoliticianBoundsFour YearsAmerican HistoryRemember WhenMexicanWheelchairsTurn Me Author:Joe Biden
“I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.” YearsRememberFictionYears AgoPublishingRemember WhenLatino Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.” RememberGuySongRaceSpecialConcertsWowBobThis GuyRemember WhenHungaryMarley Author:Usain Bolt
“It's hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.” PeopleLooksSometimesHardRememberEasyForgetLike YouMagazinesInsecurityFlawsRemember When Author:Dakota Fanning
“I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."” FirstsRememberCertainSubjectsAmountInternetGayMarriedGlassesTrafficRemember WhenBeardIra Author:Ira Glass
“Michael Keaton had a great, great career. I do remember when I was a young guy thinking about him, about how he'd had the chance to do it all, so yeah. But, there's nobody where I've said, "Man, I really want that guy's career."” ThinkingMenWantSaidRememberYoungGuyChanceCareersYeahRemember WhenThat GuyYoung Guys Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I do not remember when I said this [oil production would collapse ], maybe in the heat of the moment, but I do not think I even said it, but I may just not remember it. I was saying that at a certain level of oil prices new deposits will not be explored. That is what is actually happening. However, surprisingly, our oil and gas workers [mainly oilmen] continue to invest.” ThinkingMaySaidMomentsRememberCertainLevelsHappeningsWorkersProductionsOilHeatGasCollapseRemember WhenDepositsOil And GasOil PriceOil ProductionHeat Of The Moment Author:Vladimir Putin
“For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.” WellsLittlesBigsKidsRememberActorsBitsMomCoupleThousandCuteLittle KidRemember WhenYour MomBeing A Kid Author:Mara Wilson
“I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.” LongI CanRememberPracticeYogaRemember WhenMeditatingYoga Practice Author:Donna Karan
“Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.” StatesHappensRememberProcessConsciousUnconsciousRemember When Author:Edward Boyden
“I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidProblemRememberPresidentHeardTenFirst TimeComplicatedGoldenCommandmentsRemember WhenGolden RuleTen Commandments Author:Bill Bright
“It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.” StillsDoneRememberHouseWhiteShotsIndependenceExcitedWhite HouseRemember WhenProvocativeIndependence DayExploding Author:Roland Emmerich
“I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.” IfsTryingMeanAgeRememberYoungGirlActingAchieveMomMy MomDrivenJealousRemember WhenYoung Age Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.” ThinkingKnowsYearsBelieveKindLittlesFeelingsRememberMy OwnHellHappenedLike YouDadHappeningsSittingMy DadBest ThingsHeightOscarsRemember WhenMovie StarHypeDevastatedStardomBest Thing That Ever Happened To MeFeeling Great Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'” LightBeautifulRememberMiddleWaveEasternRemember WhenHispanicJenniferHayek Author:Kim Kardashian
“I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.” EnoughRememberDoubtSeriousElectionTexasHistorianRemember WhenStolen1960sIllinois Author:Newt Gingrich
“Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.” ThinkingStillsWholeSchoolRememberLanguageEnjoyTaughtRemember WhenCursive Author:Anne Carson
“That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."” YearsSaidStillsRememberInnocentRemember When Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I remember when the O.J. verdict was read; at my high school, all of the teachers were like, "We are stopping class right now," and turned it on and we watched it. There were people coming out of their classrooms, like, "Yeah!" Some people were like, "Nooo." I was in Spanish class.” PeopleSchoolRememberClassTeacherRight NowHigh SchoolYeahComing OutClassroomStoppingRemember WhenVerdict Author:Jodi Sweetin
“I remember asking my mother if she believed in reincarnation and she said that that sounded very sensible, and I thought, yes, it does to me too. So I always believed in it. I can't remember when I didn't.” IfsDoeSaidI CanRememberMotherAskingSensibleReincarnationRemember WhenAlways Believe Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.” LittlesEnoughKidsSchoolRememberUsedCitiesMorningAirWinterSmokeGradesElectricityCoalLittle KidRemember WhenAcidStinkUp EarlyGrades In SchoolAmerican CitiesWinter Morning Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.” FirstsStillsHappensLastsRememberOpportunityGivenDealsRecordsMinutesCoupleUniversalEntertainmentRemember WhenGiverLast Minute Author:Erykah Badu
“I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.” WantFirstsSaidBookKidsAgeRememberUniverseEditorsRemember WhenAll AloneRobins Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look so beautiful or sound so great. It was really big and really powerful, and I had a sense of accomplishment in finishing a project like this.” LooksBigsBeautifulRememberFilmSoundRoomsPowerfulProjectsAccomplishmentRemember WhenFinishingScreeningReally PowerfulSundanceSense Of Accomplishment Author:Steven Sebring
“I hadn't heard the Gary Cooper thing so I'm not grounded now. I feel pretty good. That's incredibly nice. When I met Robin [Williams] at the read-through, I remember when he came in, I was so nervous meeting him for the first time is incredible because I did actually write him a letter when I was a kid and told him he was my favorite actor.” FeelsWritingFirstsKidsRememberActorsNiceHeardMetsFirst TimeLettersMeetingsIncrediblesMy FavoriteNervousGroundedRemember WhenRobinsGary Author:John Krasinski
“You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember when we were all sitting around on a roof one night and Larry turned to me and said, "You do know I'm gay, don't you?" There was a statement made. A declaration. We just never had really talked about it.” KnowsMadeSaidRememberNightTalkingGaySittingStatementsRoofSophisticatedDeclarationRemember WhenOne NightLarrySitting Around Author:Kevin Sessums
“I remember when we were doing "Batman Begins" and to watch Chris Nolan go from "Memento" to "Batman" and take that leap from such a smaller size to a big movie, that's inspiring. But those movies are their own type of art and you have to really understand it and really know that world and I would have to take a long time to figure that out.Because my brain doesn't naturally go there.” KnowsWorldLongArtBigsRememberBrainWatchesFiguresTypeLong TimeSizeLeapRemember WhenBig MovieNolanMemento Author:Katie Holmes
“You remember when Tobey Maguire was first selected, most of the fans were angry. They felt, what kind of a guy is that for a superhero? Nobody thought it was a good idea. Yet he turned out to be great. The people at Marvel who do these things are really pretty smart. If they chose this guy, he'll probably be terrific.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindIdeasRememberGuyFeltFansSmartAngryGood IdeasSuperheroThis GuyRemember WhenTerrificSelectedReally Pretty Author:Stan Lee
“I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".” RememberHeardCriticismTownsDareBiblicalRemember WhenDisdain Author:Elie Wiesel