Becoming Quotes - Page 19

• The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

  Eva Hoffman

  Perception, Vision, World

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• For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.

  Ernie Pyle

  Two, Differences, World

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

  Graham Swift

  Doctors, Might, Fields

  "'How did I end up becoming a novelist?'" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

  Katarina Witt

  Dream, Athlete, Thinking

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• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Stupid, Culture, Firsts

  "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

  Susie Orbach

  Perfect, Body, Missions

  Susie Orbach (2010). “Bodies”, p.25, Profile Books

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• I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

  Brad Pitt

  Father, Thinking, Late

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• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  James Spader

  Thinking, Way, Iconic

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• It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

  Arthur Keith

  Civilization, Experts, Complicated

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

  George Carey

  Numbers, United States, Warning

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

  Michael Gove

  Mean, Debt, University

  "Michael Gove: the next Tory leader?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Becoming One, Actors

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Thinking, Differences, Diversity

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• When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Maturity, Self

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• I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

  Amanda Burton

  Years, Looks, Use

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

  James Brolin

  School, Cameras, Directors

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• While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

  Julianna Baggott

  College, Catholic, Catholicism

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• The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Flower, Successful, Best Things

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• Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

  Toni Braxton

  Teacher, Dad, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

  Brian Chesky

  Stars, Thinking, Interesting

  "Airbnb founder wants you to open your doors to strangers - and let them sleep over" by Meena Hart Duerson, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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