I Quotes
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“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.”
“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, were not only not doing all that they could to help these [developing] countries but were sometimes making their life more difficult. IMF programs had clearly worsened the East Asian crisis, and the "shock therapy" they had pushed in the former Soviet Union and its satellites played an important role in the failure of the transition.”
Source: Making Globalization Work
“I became delusional at the largest solar farm in the USA. I could smell smoke that no one else could and I thought the high voltage 24,000V equipment was on fire. Afterwards, I had an insatiable thirst all evening. It cleared up with sleep. My forensic examination of the incident indicated it was either a biologically toxic electromagnetic field exposure, or someone had spiked my food and/or drink with a drug. There was illegal activity occurring at the solar farm that I was investigating and reporting to the company management team.”
“I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.”
“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.”
“I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.”
“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.”
“I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.”
“I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.”
“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”
Source: The Confessions
“I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.”
“I became famous almost before I had a craft.”
“I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.”
“I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.”
“I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.”
“I became fascinated with recording in an open room.”
“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”
“I became friends on a social basis with a music professor (Dr. Alan Stein) who took a real interest in my work. He encouraged me in countless different ways, urged me to try different arranging styles, etc.”
“I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.”
“I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.”
“I became Gauleiter in 1927.”
“I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.”
“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.”
“I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.”
“I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.”
Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide
“I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'”
“I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.”
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”
“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”
“I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!”
“I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.”
“I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.”
“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.”
“I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and took up professional whistling, the most engaging obit subjects were librarians. An obituary of a librarian could be about anything under the sun, a woman with a phenomenal memory, who recalled the books her aging patrons read as children—and was also, incidentally, the best sailor on her stretch of the Maine coast—or a man obsessed with maps, who helped automate the Library of Congress's map catalog and paved the way for wonders like Google Maps.”
Source: This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
“I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.”
“I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.”
“I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.”
“I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.”
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.”
“I became like the bee: intensely gathering information from as many sources as possible and analyzing the material to construct my own understanding of Muhammad’s mindset. I analyzed every piece of data, scrutinizing it for accuracy. I sought to shorten as much as possible the chains of scholarly transmission that separated me from Muhammad. Approaching Muhammad with an open mind proved transformational: making my own sense of him forged a much more meaningful personal relationship with his legacy.”
Source: Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
“I became lost in a world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since...is you.”
Source: A Carpet of Purple Flowers
“I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.”
“I became master because of the best master, I could, ever, wished, for.”
“I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I'd ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I'd really been a bee for my entire life, and I'd just dreamed about being a boy.”
Source: Why I'm Afraid of Bees
“I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein