When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
I started walking rather than driving to get my coffee. I liked it so much, I do it for 45 minutes every day... You know those annoying people who are like, 'If I don't work out I feel... ugh'? I might be becoming one of those people.
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.
