Becoming Quotes

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

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

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

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

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.