Becoming Quotes - Page 29

• Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Preparation

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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• Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Office, Employers

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Ideas, Haunting, Settling

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• I am not a human being, i am a human becoming.

  Og Mandino

  Self, Humans, Human Beings

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• Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Silence, Risk

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• For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, Political, Danger

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• The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

  Eva Hoffman

  Perception, Vision, World

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

  Susie Orbach

  Perfect, Body, Missions

  Susie Orbach (2010). “Bodies”, p.25, Profile Books

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• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  James Spader

  Thinking, Way, Iconic

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Becoming One, Actors

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• 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.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Thinking, Differences, Diversity

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

  James Brolin

  School, Cameras, Directors

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• The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Flower, Successful, Best Things

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• Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

  Toni Braxton

  Teacher, Dad, College

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

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• There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

  Craig Charles

  Thinking, Careers, Dwarves

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

  Nick Clooney

  Defeat, Nazi

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• There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

  Toni Collette

  Challenges, Actors, Natural

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

  Joe Dempsie

  Watches, Cruise, Mediums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Book, Successful, Thinking

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• One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Ideas, Becoming Better

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• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  Jerry Doyle

  Air, Years, Fishing

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