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  • I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
  • I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
  • A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
  • Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Andy Warhol During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
    Heywood Brown
     
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  • James Thurber Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Ashe I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryan Adams I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Malcolm X I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Rosa Parks I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Alexander Smith I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Buck Owens I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Isiah Thomas If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
    Isiah Thomas
     
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • A. E. Housman Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • A. E. Housman Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
    A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 1 (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Susan Sontag It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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