“If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.” IfsMenWayGivingFeelsYearsLooksMadeAgeFilmGuyBecomingGiving UpPercentGravesComing Of AgeAdmittingBecoming A Man Author:Kevin Bacon
“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.” MayPastLawNextCausesWaterCommonHalfFeetCenturyAmountCoupleBecomingOceanHighestPercentEvidenceIncreaseEnglandTwentiesEnvironmentalAverageWaveOilDecadesHeightRisingFreakCoastNinetyEightyRisenOver The PastBecoming More Author:Sebastian Junger
“My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'” KnowsMenWantUsedActorsFatherStrongClassBecomingPercentDown AndEducatedPretendingWorking ClassScottishPresbyteriansPretending To Be Someone Else Author:Tom Hiddleston
“The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.” KnowsMenActionOrderCausesSidesIssuesBecomingDegreesPercentDevilAngelConvincedBelieverOppositionSlipsTrue BelieverOrganizerSchizoid Author:Saul Alinsky
“You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.” ThinkingInspirationalStarsMillionsBecomingPercentScientistTeenagerNbaRealisticTeensEngineersTeenage Author:Dean Kamen
“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.” PeopleWorldDoeStillsChristianNamesBecomingPercentClergymen Author:C. S. Lewis