I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
‐‐ Lars Mikkelsen
I was in the military for over 40 years, and one of the principles I kept with me was that there's an expectation globally that the U.S. will lead. Questions about that expectation have certainly risen in recent years. The fact that there's even a question about that is worrisome to me, and I think needs to be for a lot of people.
‐‐ Michael Mullen
I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
‐‐ Robert Wagner
I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.
‐‐ Billy Casper
I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.
‐‐ Rick Scott
I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.
‐‐ Norbert Leo Butz
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood
I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.
‐‐ Robert Webb
I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
‐‐ Chris Farley
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill
I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'
‐‐ Jay Leno
I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
‐‐ Theo James
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
‐‐ Jimmy Carr
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
‐‐ Edward Carpenter
I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.
‐‐ John Barrasso
I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
‐‐ Young Thug
I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
‐‐ Keren Ann
I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
‐‐ Boris Becker
I was in the tent when Bobbi Kristina's body was lowered into the ground. Watching her grandmother and her aunt, watching these women not cry but wail - you can't divorce your feelings from some of this stuff.
‐‐ Kevin Frazier
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama
I was in the underground until I left Germany.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs
I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.
‐‐ Julia Stiles
I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.
‐‐ Desiree Rogers
I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.
‐‐ Katie Cassidy
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
‐‐ Nicole Anderson
I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away.
‐‐ Christine McVie
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
‐‐ Margot Kidder
I was in two very horrible bands.
‐‐ Colin Hanks
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.
‐‐ Thor Heyerdahl
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.
‐‐ Shirley Temple
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan
I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
‐‐ Glenn Beck
I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
‐‐ Sharon Stone
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.
‐‐ Don Rickles
I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
‐‐ Judi Dench
I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
‐‐ Darren Criss
I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge's motives because of his ethnicity.
‐‐ Bill Flores
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell
I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling
I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'
‐‐ Seth Gabel
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
‐‐ Grimes
I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
‐‐ Roger Penrose
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster
I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.
‐‐ Ray William Johnson