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• Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.

  Immortal Technique

  Police, Suffering, Behaviour

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Dedication, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

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• On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

  Duke Ellington

  People, Taught, Becoming

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.

  Paris Hilton

  Writing, Becoming, Studios

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population.

  Douglas Booth

  Becoming, Meat, Population

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

  Gloria Steinem

  Childhood, Energy, Down And

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

  Jed Diamond

  Sadness, Men, Becoming

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Important, Goes On, Lines

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• The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.

  Hannibal Buress

  Talking, Stories, Becoming

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• Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

  Dan Kimball

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Space

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• I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.

  Ronan Keating

  Crazy, Artist, Reflection

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• Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

  Liberace

  Men, Clothes, Becoming

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• Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

  Prentice Mulford

  Children, Parent, Becoming

  Prentice Mulford (2013). “Thoughts are Things & God In You”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

  Ted Allen

  Feelings, Intuition, Becoming

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

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• I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.

  Patti Smith

  Wise, Writing, Self

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics...etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Europe, Long, Borders

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

  Valerie June

  Reality, Becoming, My Own

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

  Jens Lekman

  Thinking, Becoming, Making Money

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Skills, Fields

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

  Donald Trump

  Baseball, Giving Up, Team

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

  Larry Page

  Powerful, Technology, People

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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• I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Struggle, Thinking, Discovery

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• We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Atheism, Taste

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• Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.

  L. Tom Perry

  Blessed, Decision, Special

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