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'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7. Scott Turow

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My first memory of King Kong Bundy was on TBS, and he was a member of Legion of Doom. Sean Waltman

Memory King First Member King Kong He Kong Legion Doom

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London. Sebastian Coe

Change Memory People Opportunities Will Young Living East London Host Ecstatic Won Biggest Transform Young People Help Lives Olympics

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity. Sendhil Mullainathan

Time Memory Mistake People Control Busy Every Assume Resource Resources Scarce Only Also Executive Make Call Course Bandwidth Same Short Psychologists Which Mean Them Working Use Activity Nearly Basic Cognitive

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. Seth Lloyd

Memory Matter Space Energy Indeed Must Above Take Advantage Calculation Ultimate Available Turn Full Full Advantage Laptop

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors. Shekhar Kapur

My favorite song is Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' because my brother used to sing it to me as loud as he could. Annoying then, favorite memory now. Shelley Hennig

White Americans have a short memory. Sherman Alexie

Memory White American Short Short Memory

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Music Relationship Memory Reading Books Bengali Intimate Immersed Besides Particularly Household Very Literature Interest Then

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite. Sigrid Nunez

Memory Course Opposite Infallible Quite

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Sigrid Nunez

I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory. Simon Schama

You Memory Sense Community Jews Otherwise Strictly Would Would-Be Know Identity Misunderstood Persecution American Commit Order Want Dose Fiercely Really Your Even Orthodox Need

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. Sloane Crosley

Good Birthday Memory Baby Summer

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. Spike Jonze

Memory Own Think Immediate Parent My Own Most Because Childhood Connection

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. St. Vincent

Memory Guitar Something Instinct Just Just Something Much Now Muscle

Michael Owen's wonder goal against Argentina in 1998 was one defining memory, and as a Sunderland supporter, I remember crying my eyes out after they lost that play-off final against Charlton. Much as that hurt, it made me realise how much I wanted to play the game. Steph Houghton

Me Game Eyes Hurt Memory Remember Made Lost Final Defining Out Charlton Argentina Supporter Crying How How Much Goal Wonder Michael Wanted After Realise Against Much Play

In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad. Stephanie Coontz

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There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. Stephen Cohen

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They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory. Stephen Hough

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