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• Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

  Marvin Shanken

  Memories, Drinking, Wine

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• I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes people to smile or have good memories and to endure. It doesn't just go away, fade away. It's been 25 years that it's been off the air and so it still surprises me when younger people recognize me or know my work.

  Lynda Carter

  Memories, Character, Air

  "'Wonder Woman': Lynda Carter Is Back". Interview, www.philstar.com. August 5, 2005.

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• I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

  Mary Karr

  Memories, Mean, Phones

  "Exactly as she remembers it". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2001.

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• I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Memories

  "1950s 'Porgy and Bess' Castmember Maya Angelou Reflects On Production's Significance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Prophet, Qualifications

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• A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Memories, Imagination

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• The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

  Daniel Levitin

  Memories, Squirrels, Nuts

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• I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Memories, Humor

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Order, Mind

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Memories, Lied, Needed

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Romance

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• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  "D'Alembert's Dream". Book by Denis Diderot, 1830.

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

  Mick Jagger

  Memories, Talking, People

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• I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Memories, Funeral, Lasts

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Memories, Liars, Remarkable

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

  Grace Kelly

  Memories, Regret, Looking Back

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Country, Memories, World

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• So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

  John Mason Brown

  Memories, Today, Tomorrow

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• The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

  David Antin

  Memories, Anxiety, Greek

  "A Conversation with David Antin". Book by David Antin, Charles Bernstein, 2002.

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• In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

  Mireille Mathieu

  Memories, Triumph, Singers

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• To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

  Albert Finney

  Memories, Character, Theatre

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1988.

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• Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.160

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