As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there’s a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don’t need to do so.
We’re supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we’re actually becoming less evolved.
I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
The Wonder Woman that you see in ‘Batman v Superman’ is a woman who has been around, and she’s very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.
The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
Kids who don’t play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.
To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of ‘Big Issue’ sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them – or not, actually.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I’ve gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it’s also helped me to grow as a person. It’s been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
You know how everyone – there’s this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn’t mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn’t mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.
If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I’ve always been stupid. Fortunately I’ve been just smart enough to realize that I’m stupid.
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don’t have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn’t handle it.
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.
Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way – it’s the best.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
I plan on becoming an American citizen and bringing over my family.
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.
I despise the Lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade – or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
I’m becoming more adventurous.
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
‘I Am Number Four’ is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
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.
It’s definitely a motivational factor, becoming a three-organization world champion.
The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare – but also becoming a healthier population.
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.
I felt no stigma whatsoever in becoming the third Mrs. Gifford.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company – sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media – all industries are becoming technology industries. And it’s not information technology: it’s business technology.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.
My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He’s so amazed. And so happy.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
I’m actually quite a shy person and it’s becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.
I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it’s sweeter in the end.
Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.
I became a film director, but I wasn’t successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
