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• My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, People, Childhood

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• Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, Texture

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

  Hugh Jackman

  Book, Wife, House

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

  Brian Jacques

  People, Very Good, Watchers

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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

  Talking, People, Firsts

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• Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Thinking, Sugar

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

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• My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

  Quincy Jones

  Fence

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• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Thinking, Albums

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• My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Elimination, Impression, Values

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.441, Macmillan

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• All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mean, Past, Bigs

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Doubt, Littles, Remember

  "How Do Experiences Become Memories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

  Ken Kesey

  Used, Holes, Concerts

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• But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Believe, Palaces, Homeland

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• When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Night, Ideas, Creative

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Jewels, Ubuntu, Surfing

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Basketball, Boys

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• I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Cake, Saving, Aspens

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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

  Funeral, Lasts, Breathe

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

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• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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• I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Thinking, Common

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

  Primo Levi

  Lying, Years, Stones

  "Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory". Book by Christopher Bigsby, 2006.

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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  Philip Levine

  People, Poetry, Grew Up

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Important, Tides

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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