“When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentHappensLife IsSocialStarsWalksRoomsBecomingNormalPopsEngagementAwkwardReally CoolPop Stars Author:Matthew Healy
“The United States has got to join the rest of the industrialized world in making sure that working families of the middle class have benefits that they absolutely need. We are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. We are the only major country on Earth that does not provide paid family and medical leave. There are many countries around the world which make sure that public colleges and universities are tuition-free. In our country, it's becoming increasingly difficult to afford to go to college.” PeopleWorldNeedsDoeCountryStatesCareEarthDifficultUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleCollegeBecomingBenefitsMajorsPaidUniversityMedicalOur CountryAround The WorldHealth CareGuaranteesMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“So every time the Democratic Party appears to be lifting up a principled, people-powered agenda, it slaps it down and it keeps becoming more dominated by corporate money and corporatist, militarist policies.” PeoplePartyPolicyBecomingDown AndDemocraticCorporateAgendasDemocratic PartyLiftingSlapBecoming MorePrincipledLifting Up Author:Jill Stein
“When many people start practicing yoga, they are amazed to discover that their body isn't just something used to carry their head around - their body has intelligence too. We start to feel how our actions affect the lives of others - this could be described as becoming political, because the word politic means the "greater body" - it refers to the community of others with whom we share the Earth.” PeopleFeelsMeanBodyActionEarthPoliticalUsedCommunityGreaterShareBecomingYogaAmazedOur ActionsLives Of Others Author:Sharon Gannon
“I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.” PeopleFirstsThreeMonthsBecomingShotsFirst TimeNonsenseThree MonthsMorphine Author:William S. Burroughs
“I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHappensBecomingHappeningsThrustSpotlightBecoming Famous Author:Linda D. Thompson
“At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You'll get to a point where you can say: 'I can relate to that', 'I know that', 'I don't have to make that up' and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you've been there.” PeopleKnowsI CanDifferentEnoughCharacterAgeCertainAudienceBecomingWho You AreBraveDeeperRelateRevealingDifferent CharactersDig Deep Author:Glynn Turman
“You know how people are becoming sexually active way too early because they think it's going to be like it is in the movies. And people are not aware of their bodies in a certain way, because they are afraid to see themselves for who they are because they want to see themselves in someone else's shoes or whatever.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantBodyCertainKnow HowBecomingShoesActiveSexually Author:India.Arie
“I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on murder. In that case, a few executions save not only some people from being murdered but also some people from becoming murders.” PeopleIfsCasesEffectsBecomingMurderPunishmentConclusionExecutionCapital PunishmentDeterrent Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.” PeopleIdeasBecomingBecoming More Author:Brian McGinn
“In some traditional African dances, people wear masks in order to become the embodiments of particular spirits. I have heard that they often cover the mouth-piece with spider webs or something that resonates, so that their voice gets distorted, ceasing to be the voice of a human and becoming representative of a voice that comes from another world.” PeopleWorldHumansSpiritOrderVoicePiecesHeardParticularBecomingMouthsTraditionalMaskRepresentativesSpidersAnother WorldEmbodimentSpider Web Author:Justin Adams
“The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.” PeopleWorldDifferencesGreaterBecoming Author:Zaha Hadid
“What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsDoeHas BeensWholeProblemLawProcessChancePayWillingFineBecomingDrugProveTaxesWeaponsSeriesCriminalsImmigrationSecureBordersReasonableImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“I think reality TV now needs a big kick up the a - to get creative and be meaningful, I think. Otherwise, people are becoming famous for having no talent, based on pure exposure. That's the grating part.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBigsRealityCreativeTalentTvsBecomingPureMeaningfulKicksExposureReality TvWise PeopleBecoming Famous Author:Gordon Ramsay
“There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.” PeopleLawBecomingHivViral Author:Sean Strub
“The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.” PeopleWantYearsMindPersonsImportantHardSchoolChoicesOpinionTypeBecomingAdultsLeavingSupposed To BeBecoming An AdultLeaving School Author:George Michael
“It's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.” PeopleThinkingRealityPurposeAchieveBecomingRewardsCrucial Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.” PeopleYearsKindSaidShowsHandsEyeCitiesFiveComedyBecomingMetsTheaterBunchFive YearsThey SaidHipsterSketch ComedySecond City Author:Simon Helberg
“Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.” PeopleThinkingWorldAmericaNationsSportsSeeingColorBecomingInvolvedTreatedInequalityAround The WorldGreat NationsBecoming Involved Author:John Carlos
“[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years, even in past relationships, that I'm still a woman, I still have vulnerabilities even though my aesthetic feels strong, powerful and full of all of the wisdom in the world, I'm still growing and becoming.” PeopleWorldFeelsYearsMindStillsSometimesStoriesPastStrongParentPowerfulKnownGrowingChildhoodBecomingElementsAspectEducationalVulnerabilitySpokesAestheticMind BlowingPast Relationship Author:Aisha Hinds
“In the next 10 years there will be about 100 000 people who will be preparing the way for themselves with the assistance of their guides (all human beings have a dimensional being walking beside them). They will all be assisting themselves as part of the preparation by becoming aware of how animals have been separated from humans and how we are able to bring oneness into the hereness.” PeopleWayYearsHumansHas BeensAbleNextHuman BeingsAnimalBecomingWalkingGuidesOnenessPreparationPreparingAssistanceAssisting Author:Timothy Treadwell
“Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.” PeopleProblemUsedGrowsBecomingSellsSolveAfar Author:Wangari Maathai
“Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.” PeopleChanceBecomingActiveOur Society Author:Gary Yourofsky
“There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.” PeopleThinkingMomentsMovingActorsEasyEnjoyChildhoodBecomingElementsComfortableFactorsStrongestAssetsSurroundingsContributing Author:Demi Moore
“Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.” PeopleMayCultureSoundTermCasesMediaBecomingScaryMindsetCertaintyUsaAustraliaTrendsDominantHostileBecoming MorePostmodern Author:Mark Dever
“I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.” PeopleWantFeelsPersonsIdeasDifferentShowsRealityCultureActorsChangedBecomingBecoming MoreReality Shows Author:Winona Ryder
“Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they're not necessarily going to anybody's church. It's not like the world is becoming hardcore, Richard Dawkins-atheist, but people are looking to sort of synthesize science - people love science, especially the millennials.” PeopleWorldSpiritualChurchParticularBecomingAtheistHardcoreMillennialsScience Love Author:Adam Frank
“Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.” PeopleWorldLeaderDemocracyIndustryBecomingVoteCrisisEntertainmentCandidatesBranchesVery DeepEntertainment IndustryBest Leader Author:Amos Oz
“I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldSpeakBecomingCitizensDesperateScotland Author:Billy Connolly
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.” PeopleIfsWayPoliticalReligiousExampleBecomingLaborOrganizationFunctionUnionsClassicFundamentalismParticipationIdentifyingReligious FundamentalismLabor Union Author:Noam Chomsky
“I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.” PeopleWayMatterHardLaughingSubjectsBecomingPaintComicDirtySubject MatterMaking People LaughSuperstarFilthy Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.” PeopleWorldHelpingProblemAttentionWorryGrowingBecomingSolvePay AttentionExcitementChaoticBecoming More Author:Dieter Rams
“I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.” PeopleWayMadeTwoEndsHardKidsSchoolCoursesPresidentCareersSacrificeCollegeMomBecomingNeededSmartRaisedGlassesVicesLocalsGrandmotherBossSecretaryMy GrandmotherCeilingsWhipsVice PresidentSingle MomCollege EducationGlass Ceiling Author:Barack Obama
“It's really scary, when you're on the verge of becoming a teenager, and you don't know if people like you for you or if they like you for the show you're on. So I started finding friends who were not that way, who are accepting and see you who you are.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShowsAcceptingLike YouBecomingFindingsWho You AreScaryTeenagerVergeReally Scary Author:Rowan Blanchard
“I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.” PeopleWellsSometimesWholeSpeakFeltFailingBecomingSucceedImperfectionAttemptingPlaywright Author:Annie Baker
“I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and becoming my own person throughout each mixtape. One thing I could learn from looking back at my old mixtapes, what I could learn from my old self, is just to keep that hunger and that drive and that feeling of an underdog and also the feeling of being a fan, still lookin up to people - you just want to impress them.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsStillsSelfFeelingsArtistMy OwnOne ThingFansEvolutionBecomingHungerLooking BackImpressUnderdogOld SelfMixtapes Author:Kevin McCall
“I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.” PeopleThinkingWantLongStillsSecretRolesBecomingHigherDiversePredictableProfile Author:Christian Bale
“I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.” PeopleThinkingWantDyingHugeBecomingIllPerformersNot AloneLimelightFear Of DyingFear Of Being Alone Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.” PeopleWantedBecomingFameLimelightBecoming Famous Author:Bruno Mars
“Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.” PeopleHas BeensAbleSpeakBecomingBurdenSettlingBritainTaxpayersMigrantsSpeak English Author:Theresa May
“I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.” PeopleStillsAgeEarthLastsLeftInformationBecomingComputerGenuineFree MarketSurvivingIndigenousIndigenous People Author:Russell Means
“Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.” PeopleAbleSocialInfluenceMediaBecomingSocial MediaReach OutBecoming Famous Author:Shemar Moore
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” PeopleLifeKindStatesLife IsPassionWishProcessGoalGrowthChangeFailingInspirational LifeFailureBecomingCombinationLive LifeLive With PassionStarting AnewLove And PassionPassion For LifeDiscovering SelfDiscovery In LifeFinding Your PathProcess Of LifeLife And Passion Author:Anais Nin
“I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.” PeopleStillsChoicesBecomingVery Happy Author:Christopher Nolan
“The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.” PeopleWantPersonsOrderBecomingObstaclesBe GoodGood PersonBetter PersonBeing A Better PersonBeing A Good PersonBecoming BetterBiggest ObstaclesBecoming A Better Person Author:Dennis Prager
“I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.” PeopleActorsNew YorkBecomingComedianPigeonsPremieresBecoming New Author:Colin Quinn
“People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.” PeopleParticularDevelopmentBecomingHeritageBecoming MoreDominance Author:Robert Redford
“People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.” PeopleKnowsIdeasBitsEnjoyCreativeBecomingDegreesUniversityAccountantsCreative Writers Author:Wilbur Smith
“Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.” PeopleAmericaNaturalNumbersBecomingDisasterFeaturesLatinSpeakersFloodGlobesAsiaHurricanesEarthquakesLatin AmericaLarge NumbersNatural Disaster Author:Earl Blumenauer