This Day Quotes - Page 30

• I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Cookies, Fruit, Lucky

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• I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

  Cobi Jones

  Kids, Games, Video

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• When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Order, Joy, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.

  Jim Talent

  Blow, Iraq, People

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• I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

  Yogi Berra

  Thank You, Sports, Want

  Quoted in Bruce Bohle, Home Book of American Quotations (1967). In The Yogi Book (1998), Berra traces this comment, which he views as the original Yogiism, to Yogi Berra Day in 1947, when he was honored by his friends in St. Louis, Mo.

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• What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Birthday, Impact, Europe

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Inspired, Knows, Related

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.164, Northwestern University Press

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• I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Thinking, People

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• I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

  John Cusack

  Youth, Great Music, Nostalgic

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• People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Hate, People

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• Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Numbers, Long

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.17

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• I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

  Ty Cobb

  Regret, College, Doctors

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• I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "A Memoir Of A 'Tiger Mother's' Quest For Perfection". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 14, 2011.

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• My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

  Steven Chu

  Teacher, Fall, Simple

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• The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

  Billy Campbell

  New York, Real, Past

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

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• In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

  Nicolas Cage

  Couple, Book, Boys

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Powerful, Believe

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• 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

  Alton Brown

  Dark, Men, Cooking

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• Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Memorable, Adventure

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.2, Applewood Books

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• People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, School, People

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• To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Car, Passionate

  "Oprah Talks to Hugh Jackman". www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

  Ezra Koenig

  Rap, Inspiration, Stills

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

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• God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

  Joey McIntyre

  Couple, Secret, Age

  "Joey McIntyre Keeping Name of Baby-On-The-Way a Secret" by Missy, celebritybabies.people.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

  John Stamos

  Summer, Beach, Heart

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• To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.

  Julius Streicher

  Believe, Impossible, Proof

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