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I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club.

I can't tell you how exciting it was, because Vincent Price had made a huge impression on me when I was a little kid. I just loved him in films. And so meeting him and becoming friends with him was a big deal for me.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

I'd have to say that muaythai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

I feel like I've been becoming more and more like the city I had been living in and creating in.

I feel myself becoming more mature and more fascinated and drawn to feminine values.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become...will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, "What kind of person am I becoming?" and "What is my role in that?" and so on.

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?