Becoming Quotes
2806 Becoming quotes by 2054 unique authors
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Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as…
— Germaine Greer
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in…
— Bob Parsons
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To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists…
— Primo Levi
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May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
— Thomas Merton
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Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.
— Pat Robertson
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
— Kate Morton
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its…
— Susan Sontag
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the…
— Martin Amis
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Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous…
— Pema Chodron
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I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
— Shelley Berman
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
— Felix Baumgartner
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There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
— Arianna Huffington
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
— Jerry Brown
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Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor.…
— Guy Finley
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I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of…
— Katie Leclerc
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We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty…
— Max Levchin
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
— Michael McKean
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Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.'…
— Jo Nesbo
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I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the…
— George Andrew Olah
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay…
— Cat Power
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