I Quotes
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“I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.”
“I became the wandering soul looking for roots buried under ruin, denied forever the certainty of full knowledge.”
Source: Daughters Of The River Huong
“I became their punching bag- passed off from blow to blow, my bones screaming in agony. Maybe I was screaming in agony, too.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.”
“I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.”
“I
became
to understand
you and all
of you.”
“I became utterly addicted to her and the escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t hear her voice.”
“I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.”
“I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.”
“I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating a formula and sticking with it and I just told myself, 'That's not me, that's not really how I am, god forbid I have developed a formula - it's music; songwriting.' It's heretic, honestly, in the church of music, so I had to unwind a few tricks in order to get past it.”
“I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did Sea Wolf together along with Christopher Reeve. Ive been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance.”
“I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.”
“I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.”
“I became very good at protecting all who would ask.
How are you?
I'm all right. I'm fine. I'm hanging in there. I'm feeling OK. Thanks for asking. I'm good. I'm doing well. I'm a little tired. I'm handling things. I'm fine, thanks to all of you. I'm getting better. I'm keeping busy. I'm making progress. Fine, better, well, good and thank you for asking.”
“I became very interested [in philosophy] after attending the U.N. Conference on sustainable development in Brazil.I'm very concerned about climate change and the world reaching a tipping point. And, I see other people who really just want to survive to make it to the next election, rather than making means of change.”
“I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.”
“I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?”
“I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.”
“I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.”
“I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.”
“I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.”
“I became wary of medical blood and urine tests and came to regard them as very misleading.”
“I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.”
“I became well known for researching what the corporate government did not want researched.”
“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.”
Source: Pictures and conversations
“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”
Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
“I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.”
“I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.”
“I become a chameleon for wherever I am.”
“I become a happier man each time I suffer”
“I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.”
“I become almost wild and shout at them: - To whom are you reciting Kaddish? Do you still believe? And what do you believe, whom are you thinking? Are you thanking the Lord for his mercy and taking away our brothers and sisters, our fathers and mothers? No, no! It is not true; there is no God. If there were a God, he would not allow such misfortune, such transgression, where innocent small children, only just born, or killed, by people who want only to to honest work and make themselves useful to the world are killed! and you, living witnesses of the great misfortune, remain thankful. Whom are you thanking?”
Source: The Last Jew of Treblinka
“I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.”
Source: Advertisements for Myself
“I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up.”
“I become blessed through you when I follow you and your Son, in the foot steps you both left for me to follow. You give me life, happiness, joy satisfaction, contentment, love and abundance when I'm at the heel of your feet but when I sin, I feel wretched, worn down, punished, sad, empty and alone. In my heart I know what to do but I choose not to and I'm sorry.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”
Source: Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)
“I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.”
“I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.”
Source: I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
“I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once told me it was. The conflict and torture is not a sign of intelligence anymore, as Finn once told me it was. It is ugly. We are exhausted. Gutted. You're too hard! she yells at me. Be soft, she orders. I'm confused, I tell her. I don't know what to grieve. I can't be in a relationship with anyone, she says, so if you have to grieve something, grieve that. She says this strongly. She means it. When we get off the phone I am in fetal position on the bathroom floor, holding my heart, while it literally aches.”
Source: Women
“I become filled with anxiety and hurt as a natural reaction. Then I resort to my gratitude journal. I make it a point to think about and write down all of the things I have to be grateful for, and this helps me immensely.”
“I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around.”
“I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.”
“I become kind of obsessive about research.”
“I become like a boulder on the beach in a time-lapse video. The sun and moon and stars cross the sky again and again, shadows lengthen and shrink, the tide rushes in and out. The sea heaves in the background, crabs and seabirds flicker in and out of view. Meanwhile, the boulder sits there, stolid, unmoving, all alone, as life whizzes past.”
Source: It's Not Like It's a Secret
“I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.”
“I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.”
“I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum”
“I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.”
“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”