I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
Eugene Cernan
Related Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so o... ALAN SHEPARD When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles... ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films. CARICE VAN HOUTEN I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incre... CAROLE ANN FORD I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. JIM HENSON I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were bet... TADANOBU ASANO I know something about aircraft carriers. And I can't wait to tell this country that landing on an a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciousl... ARTO LINDSAY Ten years before --- even five --- I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an ... SYLVIA PLATH It's just the same kind of arresting gear that they use onboard aircraft carriers. JOHN MASSEY And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying... REBA MCENTIRE Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a ful... CASEY STONER To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogene... AMISHA PATEL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relax... JASON SCOTT LEE I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to ... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my m... ALISON BECHDEL I never, ever considered an evacuation strategy in San Francisco that would require the entire city ... GAVIN NEWSOM I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody coul... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i... GABY HOFFMANN That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu... SYLVIA PLATH I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS When you think about . . . going into another country for the first time, it's a little daunting, ..... JAMES WEBB Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paed... ESTHER DUFLO When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle... JOSIE BISSETT In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con... MARY GARDEN I decided today when the smoke poured through the serving window and I had to move away from the gri... DENISE TRAMMELL I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, b... FLORENCE GREEN I am convinced that the nation requires more than one Atlantic coast naval station capable of home-p... BILL NELSON America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do... ROBIN SLOAN For a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger ca... HOWARD LEE I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE She had become a very important part of our lives, and we loved her. She gave me confidence that jus... DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone w... JEROLD J. KREISMAN I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided... ELIZABETH BERKLEY I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sh... RONIT ROY As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co... MICHAEL CHABON I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down... MELANIE BENJAMIN I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I... CANDACE BUSHNELL I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decide... BARNEY FRANK Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to ... DANNY GLOVER Let me say again that I have not read your book. And one of the reasons I didn't was because I wante... KEITH BEAUCHAMP I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, a... ROBERT REDFORD I was just a kid who had arrived in the world of professional football and thought he could do anyth... ANTOINE GRIEZMANN In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who w... W. RICHARD STEVENS I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted ... MELANIE LAURENT I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have... ORLANDO BLOOM We have not seen this level of aircraft carrier activity for a couple years. That number of aircraft... ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD I asked the world to let me have all the fun while I was young. I became old, and realized it wasn't... SUSIE L HILL “While I started talking and walking from within myself, as a child I was certain that this is my ... MAURICE SPEES It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Well, about five years ago, when I was invited to the Pentagon, they were still saying that, only 1.... JAMES WILLIAMS When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films... DANNY KAYE As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away fr... JULIE BURCHILL My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I ... LIEV SCHREIBER I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st... CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st... YUSUF ISLAM I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world ... MARVIN HAMLISCH I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more... DAVID NEELEMAN It was a pilot flying somewhere in the area that day who saw something I thought was incredibly powe... WESLEY CLARK It was something I had to battle through. It was frustrating. There were a lot of different emotions... ROBBIE EARL The Navy tasked us with flying these adversary missions four to five times a year from NAS Fallon, N... JAY BOLLES The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I rea... JEANIENE FROST The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG
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EUGENE DELACROIX I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a... EUGENE LEVY is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about. EUGENE LEVY 'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s... EUGENE LEVY I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p... EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ... EUGENE LEVY It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ... EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u... EUGENE KENNEDY I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose... EUGENE DEBS They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ... EUGENE DEBS The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything. EUGENE DEBS Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of... EUGENE DEBS Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. EUGENE DEBS I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them arson, robbery, or assassin... EUGENE DEBS Your honor, I ask no mercy, I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. ... EUGENE DEBS (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com... EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel... EUGENE JARVIS How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a... EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl... EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences EUGENE WIGNER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game... EUGENE MCCARTHY Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos... EUGENE KENNEDY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact... EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to. EUGENE ORMANDY There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ... EUGENE LEVY When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t... EUGENE O'NEILL at least provides some judicial review. EUGENE FIDELL Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. EUGENE O'NEILL The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do t... EUGENE JARECKI Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a co... EUGENE IONESCO