I was gung-ho when I went in.


Ernest McQueen

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I'm pretty gung-ho. I'm not a retire kind of guy.
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I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
ROBERT VAUGHN
I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college ...
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Let me tell you something: My brother was so proud of being a Marine. He conquered his fears of heig...
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE
My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the feeling...
DAVID HEDISON
Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.
HERMAN MELVILLE
I was in disbelief when Raich went out.
TED LIGETY
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JOE MANGANIELLO
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu...
ZIG ZIGLAR
I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorabl...
PHILIP SCHULTZ
I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
KAI RYSSDAL
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SAM SHEPARD
I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.
DONALD TRUMP
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ERNEST MCQUEEN
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ERNEST MCQUEEN
I just didn't want to kill nobody.
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I guess I'll have to take whatever comes my way.
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I'm glad to get this behind me. What are they going to do with a 55-year-old man that's baldheaded, ...
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I just decided I didn't want to be a part of killing anybody. That's about as plain as I can say it.
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ALISTAIR BROWNLEE
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
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A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee...
PIERCE BROSNAN
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
TIFFANY MADISON
My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and s...
JOE FRAZIER
I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT
Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I wen...
POPPY DELEVINGNE
I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums ...
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SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER
Dreizehn Mann saßen auf einem Sarg,
Ho! Ho! Ho! - und ein Fass voller Rum.
Sie soffen dre...
MICHAEL ENDE
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
DONATELLA VERSACE
Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
BECKY LYNCH
I think it's imperative that revenue sharing remains a part of this league. I think it'd be a sad da...
ART MODELL
For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I h...
STEVE PREFONTAINE
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
We went to their house timid. When I went down there, I was scared because it was a big game. I had ...
DARNELL JACKSON
I was an awfully little girl when I went to Longfellow.
PHYLLIS PERLEY
I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Ca...
HENRY CAVILL
When I was a kid, I went to school in a small town. I wanted to play basketball - that was my dream.
BETH SWENSON
The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
EDWARD FURLONG
Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy; When I was young! When I was young?--Ah...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
He came to camp in great condition. When Chan Ho left for the Classic, he looked like he was ready f...
BRUCE BOCHY
I was very pleased. I wasn't really expecting anything when I went in. I was just hoping for the bes...
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I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was...
ROBERT CARLYLE
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kid...
EOIN COLFER
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
NAOMIE HARRIS
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fi...
ANONYMOUS
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv...
GEORGE BURNS
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch...
LAKE BELL
I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
GRIFFIN DUNNE
When I went to investigate, this was the only time I was at the facility.
JULIUS PATTERSON
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an exis...
JOHN HODGMAN
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable th...
JIM HARRISON
Then I came back and went to CJCA before that I was at CHED when they first started in 1954. After f...
BRIAN HALL
I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
IAN RUSH
I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talke...
DAVID CARRADINE
Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said America...
MAUREEN CALLAHAN
I went to her interview before the Women's British Open, and I couldn't believe how full the room wa...
DAVID LEADBETTER
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
FIONA APPLE
The gun went off accidentally, I didn't even know it went off. Even when I heard the bang, I didn't ...
DANILO GUERARA SANDOVAL
He must not smell of drink or body odor and his 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' must resonate deeply.
JAMES LOVELL
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Gary Condit must go.
DONNA BRAZILE
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me.
MAYA ANGELOU
When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON
I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE
I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public offic...
BOB CORKER
The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I g...
JAY ELECTRONICA
I went to her interview before the Women's British Open, and I couldn't believe how full the room wa...
DAVID LEADBETTER
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...
MARILYN MANSON
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgard...
MATT CAMERON
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that w...
WOODY ALLEN
When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died
YOGI BERRA
When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboardi...
DARIA WERBOWY
Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
JOSS WHEDON
When she was at UK, I could stay in the room, ... But when she went to Cardinal Hill (rehab hospital...
ALAN HENDERSON
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the par...
BOBBY SHERMAN
When I went to the district competition in Athens, I won the Discovery Channel Award. I was surprise...
COLLEEN RYAN
Ernest showed me what it actually meant to be a leader. Ernest was the leader of the receivers when ...
DAVID CLOWNEY
The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole yea...
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creati...
ERNEST BARBARIC
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
ERNEST DOWSON
A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN
What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
ERNEST RENAN
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
ERNEST DIMNET
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
ERNEST RENAN
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...
ERNEST DIMNET
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the...
ERNEST DIMNET
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n...
ERNEST BECKER
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
ERNEST RENAN
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl...
ERNEST RENAN
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN
Ideas are the roots of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY