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If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.


Matt Haig

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ANDY WARHOL The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their...
ESTHER B. FEIN When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgo...
ANN BRASHARES They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t...
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CHARLES ROSS We need to learn to mark up better. We got frustrated that they were getting opportunities and forgo...
TRACEY MORRILL Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things w...
BUDDY GUY Their faces said that they were affected by what they saw. They understood not only how only the bui...
DAVE WISE People have often wondered how they'd feel if they were adopted. I think it's funny.
LARRY DAVID If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until on...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they'v...
ANDY WARHOL If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world wou...
DAVID WALSH They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
EMILY BRONTë They were getting played quite a bit. I enjoyed watching people and was happy to pay out if they won...
CHARLIE GOOD The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The girl clones at Singer Grove were just like the ones in Texas; they knocked themselves out to be ...
E.L. KONIGSBURG I know people came out to see how bad we were. Then we win them over, and they stick around.
JOHN CORBETT People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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DENNIS MILLS I've probably got 20 phone messages from my buddies back home. They were probably getting drunk at 7...
CARTER TREVISANI They didn't like how they were treated.
LARRY BEST To be quite honest, I don't think they knew what to expect from us. We were getting defensive pressu...
TRACY ENGLISH I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, ene...
HEIDI KLUM It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they wer...
JENNY DOWNHAM That's because people know how they would feel if the woman were her granddaughter, or mother, or he...
ANN STONE I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt abo...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how li...
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GWYNNE SHOTWELL You kind of see if they were playing, how they did, and it's always good when they lose.
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DANIEL J. GOOR I was wondering how they were going to adjust to the weather.
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ERIC RINARD The question is how they were removed, ... Was the force necessary, unnecessary or were the men inju...
DARRELL JOHNSON It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about h...
JENNIFER BROWN They had such satisfaction when a job was done. I could tell how proud they were.
BILL STEVENS The winners obviously were delighted. So, they're telling their friends and neighbors how they won t...
KAREN FIEDLER I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets peopl...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the c...
ERIN MORGENSTERN It was a bunch of young girls, ... They were standing in close proximity. I said, 'Hi. How are you?'...
MARK RUFFALO We don't know what they were thinking and how important public money was.
GEORGE MIRABAL It was like if they were in a hurry or getting ready to leave.
BILL DAY That was a real big win for us. I was real pleased with how they played. They were businesslike.
MARC WALTERS I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it ...
PEGGY FLEMING There were frustrations involved, absolutely. But they were entirely professional in how they handle...
JEN DETWILER I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this bu...
EDDIE IZZARD Interviewers want to see how people approach problems and determine if they were creative in finding...
BARBARA QUINN They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISON You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
DIANA GABALDON This was the terrorist gang that couldn't shoot straight. That's how stupid they were.
DAVID J. DEAN If we can't even figure out how it was that they enacted the threats or moved through that attack, a...
TOM DASCHLE When I was washing [an old pair of her] jeans, I held them up, and I couldn't believe how big they w...
ALISHA MARIGONI How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
JEAN PLAIDY What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the c...
V.E. SCHWAB People don't know how to knock anymore, or close the door. They must be used to automatic doors now ...
MJ CHRISTINE I don't think they liked it when they realized how tired they were.
BUFF HOCHMAN I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
BRYAN ADAMS People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR They were all talking about how things were going to get crazy later.
MATT SHEPPARD Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave...
THOMAS A. EDISON Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON They were more worried about how many houses they can get on an acre than the people who live here.
LORI FRANTZ Meeting everyone that lived there was the hardest part and the best part of the trip. Everyone had s...
ALLISON GIBNEY If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or gettin...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY Turns out they were so excited the instrument worked that they forgot to let me know.
MARK BAUTZ Our focus was getting Seth hot early. And then getting Matt going through the air.
REED PROSSER When Georgia Tech went on probation, the calls flooded in. Even the recruiters at Tech said they wer...
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LAWRENCE JOHNSON I was surprised at just how candid people were,
ANDREW MILLER How was it possible to miss someone when they were standing right next to you?
SAMANTHA YOUNG How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came...
STEVEN LEVENKRON These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembere...
BIBLE The people over there -- insurgents, freedom fighters, enemies, whatever you want to call them -- we...
BRIAN TURNER But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.
JORDAN BELFORT The first half, we were beat up and down. That was a tribute to Macomb and how they played. They are...
BRENT DUGAN It wasn't inconvenience that was restricting how much they consumed those six feet away. It was that...
BRIAN WANSINK Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first pl...
ANNE APPLEBAUM They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old p...
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ROBIN WILLIAMS We didn't get him touches then because of what they were doing (on defence) and what we were doing u...
MIKE GIBSON That's how we figured out if they were behaving rationally or not. Did they pick according to all th...
BRIAN KNUTSON They were as astounded as we were at how isolated it was. As far as they knew, neither of their clan...
BRUCE BEEHLER To see how happy they were, ... that?s the feeling that happens to most people once in a lifetime if...
CLEM LABINE And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.
DUANE G. CAREY We were just amazed at how well they adapted.
LYNDA WHITE Deputy sheriffs had always held the power in the jails. They controlled the culture of the place. if...
SUNNY SCHWARTZ She used to tell me she had no idea how Jack was getting so drunk. But we figured it out. Then he ha...
PETER GUNTHER She remembered how Billy always picked the first apple blossoms and put them into a tin cup for her....
SANDRA DALLAS How many other slips are there out there? It's not a slip, ... They knew they were there. Somebody k...
COLIN POWELL '21' was the place, and you went down, and they opened the door. They had a little slit they...
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MATT GROENING I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve...
MATT GROENING The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the R...
MATT GROENING My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitio...
MATT GROENING If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, ...
MATT GROENING Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
MATT GROENING If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
MATT BOMER I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
MATT LAUER A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it w...
MATT APUZZO I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are gr...
MATT DILLON Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
MATT MULLENWEG Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi...
MATT BOMER That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere...
MATT DAMON Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.
MATT DAMON Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl...
MATT DAMON I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets...
MATT GONZALEZ I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ...
MATT KUCHAR What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in...
MATT TAIBBI Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost...
MATT RIDLEY I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w...
MATT BOMER