Becoming Quotes - Page 21

• Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Our Generation, Self

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• I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.

  Cam Gigandet

  Dream, Worry, Parent

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• Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

  Lisa Gardner

  Kids, Needs, Disease

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• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  Carla Bruni

  Mother, Eight, Years

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.

  Friedrich Wohler

  Giving Up, Science, May

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• It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Rights, Self, Practice

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• Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Common Sense

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• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Aberration, May

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Philosophy, Individual

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• Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Knowing Who You Are, Personality, Recognizing

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• The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Literature, British, Dictatorship

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• Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Mammals, Climate, Asian

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.6, VM eBooks

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• Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

  Freddie Highmore

  Thinking, People, Age

  "Freddie Highmore Talks ‘Toast,’ Working With Helena Bonham Carter And Growing Up". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Mother, Stronger, Becoming A Mother

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• That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Fun, Actors, Want

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  Fran Kranz

  Becoming One, People, Age

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Rocks, Long

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• Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

  Bob Dylan

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

  Paul Stookey

  Men, Wife, Giving

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• We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

  Max Levchin

  Winner, Social Network, Like You

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• I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

  Jo Nesbo

  Reading, Culture, Keith

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• I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Live Your Life, Good Times

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• It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

  Christopher Lambert

  Passion, Purpose, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

  Dylan Lauren

  College, Thinking, Aqua

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