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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Reading, Watching Tv, Teens

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• I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

  Josephine Baker

  Thinking, Paris, People

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• Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Teenager, Advice

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• I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

  Jo Brand

  Different, Woods, Remember

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• I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

  Eli Broad

  School, America, Michigan

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• It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Dirty

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• I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

  Eric Clapton

  Guitar, Waiting, Singing

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• Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

  David Cronenberg

  People, Forever, Remember

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Real, Years, Imagination

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• I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.

  Eliza Dushku

  Safety Pins, Jeans, Clerks

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• I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

  Roger Ebert

  Bottles, Coke, Six

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• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  Zell Miller

  Fighting, Tyrants, America

  Zell Miller's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.cbsnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, School, Boys

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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Air, Cities, Remember

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  Barbra Streisand

  Echoes, Sound, Brooklyn

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• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Political, Six Months

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• I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

  Paul Walker

  Wicked, Might, Wow

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• I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Office, Unemployment

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

  Steven Wright

  Humorous, School, College

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• I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

  Martin Yan

  Children, College, Cooking

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• Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Zuckerberg, Cds, Genius

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

  Charles Bukowski

  Promise, Each Day, Remember

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