Becoming Quotes
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I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.
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Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.
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I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.
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My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.
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I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be.
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The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.
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You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
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What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
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Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.
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The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.
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My movies are not about being, but becoming.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.
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Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
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The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
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Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.
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Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.
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Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
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Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.
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Yes, Manda. You’re becoming a good detective.
