Became Quotes
3666 Became quotes by 2748 unique authors
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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to…
— Bridget Riley
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in…
— Warren Christopher
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Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to…
— John Brunner
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The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:…
— George R. R. Martin
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My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the…
— Mike Tyson
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered…
— Philip Pullman
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It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became…
— Paul Watson
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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
— Alanis Morissette
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became…
— L. Frank Baum
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
— John Cage
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Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them…
— Bill Laswell
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The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself,…
— Kathleen Battle
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Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
— Steve Carlton
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In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one…
— Niki Lauda
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How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party that…
— Rand Paul
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Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where…
— Muhammad Yunus
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This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and…
— Osama bin Laden
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I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and…
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God…
— Ebenezer Elliott
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