This Day Quotes - Page 33

• To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

  Helen Reddy

  Song, Hate, School

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• The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

  Judd Nelson

  Ocean, Hearing, Effects

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

  Bob Matsui

  Umpires, Parent, Trials

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• Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as the polio vaccines that they are administering. I think (people) would be appalled that some of the vaccines that are currently being used are still laced with viruses.

  Leonard Horowitz

  Thinking, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on

  Leonard Nimoy

  Moving, Inspiration, Black And White

  "An Interview With Photographer Leonard Nimoy". Interview with Jason Landry, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Nuts, Kangaroos

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• We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Jail, Memorial

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• Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Player, Guitar

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

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• I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Labels, Records, Murphy

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• At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

  Wilbur Smith

  Mother, School, Age

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• I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

  Dolly Parton

  Depressing, School, Kids

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• About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1993). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

  Ryan Lochte

  Basketball, Sports, Growing Up

  "Ryan Lochte loves his mom, really wants to meet Lil Wayne (Fourth-Place Medal interview)". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Desert, Spirituality

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

  Jeff Koons

  Thinking, Film, Disney Film

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

  John Updike

  Age, President, Lips

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• All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.

  Burgess Meredith

  Memories, Eye, Boys

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• The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Boys, Bees, Stills

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2000). “The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)”

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Autumn, Land

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  Lee Iacocca

  Hate, Style, Matter

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.9, Bantam

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• Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.

  Ray Floyd

  Years, Rolling, Balls

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• To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

  Catherine O'Hara

  Men, Hands, Guy

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

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• I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Long

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• The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Animal, Design

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