Become Quotes

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.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.