Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.
I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
I become kind of obsessive about research.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.
I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
Even Instagram has become a way to show off your girl group and make other girls feel left out.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.
I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.
