Become Quotes

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.