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Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
As Churchill's grandson, I am in daily receipt of vile correspondence from people telling me that I am a traitor to his memory.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
One of the coolest days of my life was when I bought a 16K memory card upgrade and stuck it in my Apple II. I was kind of a geek.
My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
When my father was assassinated, I decided that I would not compete with his memory, but the priority would be to achieve his dream.
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Eating wantan mee in Malaysia is my earliest memory. The street sellers there have a whole cooking set-up on the front of their bikes.
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.
Justice Ginsburg is a shining example of how one person can impact our world and truly make a difference. May her memory be a blessing.
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.