After everyone’s gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It’s a nice reminder that this has always been a kind of hobby that I get on with because I really love it.
The royal family’s existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major’s rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They’re fine opening hospitals. It’s when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
I think teaching keeps me honest because if I’m up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer – it’s a good and humbling reminder.
Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It’s also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.
Pride is not just any summer festival. It is a celebration – but it is also a manifestation of human rights. It is serious – and joyful. It is a reminder of the progress that has been made – but also of everything that still remains to be done.
You see the rise and fall of Sears and others. It’s just a reminder that this can happen to us too.
When I feel like work and life are both going well, I feel like I can be fully present at both. I think the reminder to me is that both are super important, and I need to be able to feel like I can experience both in the way that makes me happiest. If I’m not happy in one or the other, it really affects the other side.
As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase ‘nothing about us without us.’ To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a painful reminder of how Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt carved up their small countries after World War II, placing them, against their will, under Soviet domination.
For me, body art is all about expression; it’s a lifestyle and can serve as a reminder that when my career is done, I’ll have a story to tell on my body. And it will be my story of my life on my body.
I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.
Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It’s kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It’s a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it’s important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
My kids love old Hollywood movies and look forward to watching the Charlton Heston classic, ‘The Ten Commandments,’ every year. The retro special effects and over-acting are fun to watch and the story is a great reminder of our Jewish roots in the Passover meal.
When I step onto the mound for the first time in a game, I remove my cap and look under the brim to read a message I write to myself with a Sharpie each season. It’s a private reminder to stop and reflect on how lucky I am to play professional baseball.
You have to be ready for anything. It’s a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You’ve got to be ready for both.
Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
The Passover story is a reminder that our unity is our strength, and that there is nothing we cannot overcome, together.
Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.
I have a tattoo on my arm that says, ‘Would you be proud to die this way?’ And that’s my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?
I think acting helps me as a director no matter what. There is something about being reminded about the vulnerability it takes to be an actor and what I’m really asking of actors every day when I’m on set as a director that I think it’s a really good reminder.
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that’s a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It’s about music.
When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it’s an extra reminder that you don’t want to live life with any regrets.
Coming back to ‘New Girl’ was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.
I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.
‘The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman’ is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.
The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
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