Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

Steve McQueen

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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Happiness

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Single
  • Day
  • Election

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Doing
  • New
  • New York

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Political
  • Politics

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poverty

• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Want
  • Man
  • Always

• On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Looks

• It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Broken

• My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.

  

  James Nasmyth
  • Children
  • Father

• Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Different
  • Same
  • Everybody

• I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Up
  • Career
  • Proud

• On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

  

  Walther Nernst
  • Knowledge
  • Research
  • Examinations

• When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Friend
  • Reason
  • Care

• I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Lost
  • Reason
  • Doing