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«My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.»
Author: Charles Barkley
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Family
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All Over Me, My Family, reminded
«As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but would be better employed in squealing.»
«My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.»
Author: Leonard Slatkin
| Keywords:
Lobos, musical, my first, quartet, rehearse, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing, reminded, sixth, teddy, teddy bear, Villa-Lobos, villa
«It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns»
Author: Molly O'Neill
| About:
Drinking
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bender, benders, bottle, breakfast table, chill, drain, his uncle, Morning after, notorious, poetic, reminded, returns, sit down, stout, The Morning After, The Notorious, uncle, uncles
«I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.»
Author: Reggie Jackson
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a billion, billion, china, in China, reminded, strike, strike out
«In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.»
«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
blown, congo, elsewhere, extension, Gaza, go to bed, go to pieces, Grozny, in time, Novelists, perennial, prosperous, reminded, returned, Right Now, Right to return, Rio, sheer, simultaneity, Sudan, surprised, The Congo, this evening, time and space, traveler, travelers, unlikely, visited
«Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, impression, indelible, inspiration, poem, reminded
«It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.»