#went

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. ↗

— Bono

#america #anything #britain #british #came

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#changes #in the past #lot #past #recruit

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#because #come #find #fought #function

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bread #break #different #dinner #father

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#been #calendar #done #give #i

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#chicago #day #every #every day #few

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#box #burned #crying #curb #huge

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#arts #college #fine #fine arts #home mom

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#actually #asked #association #ball games #boy