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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  Paul Harvey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

  Conrad Hall

  Thrill, Shooting, Firsts

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• I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

  Claude Chabrol

  Wall, War, Fall

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• I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

  Tim Burton

  Father, Years, Would Be

  Interview with Danny Elfman, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

  William S. Burroughs

  Art, Growing Up, Children

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

  Ray Bradbury

  Remember, Total Recall, Coming Out

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• My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

  Joe Biden

  School, Law, Recollection

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• Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Powerful, Reality

  "How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science". Book by Bobby Mercer, 2009.

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

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• Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

  Louis Aragon

  Men, Errors, Ideas

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• I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Circles, Mind, Body

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

  John Cusack

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

  DMX

  Rapper, Excited

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• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Sunset, Hiking

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• Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

  Al Franken

  Children, Grandmother, Focus

  "As a comic, Al Franken joked about rape, sex robots and Afghan women" by Jake Nevins, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2017.

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• Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Differences, Numbers

  "Obama Takes On Market-Based Government" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2009.

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• As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

  Thomas Frank

  War, President, May

  "George W. Is No Martyr" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2009.

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• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  Malin Akerman

  Girl, Stones, Sides

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

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• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Tape, Use

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• Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

  Joshua Foer

  Growing Up, Heart, Phones

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.100, Penguin

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• The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Mean, Law

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

  Roger Daltrey

  Thinking, Moon, Keith

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