"As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit."
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"History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man."
"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young."
"We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard."
"If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person."
"It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
"Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched."
"Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time."
"The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself."
"We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!"
"Doesn't becoming imply time?"
"Is not virtue a negation of becoming?"
"God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else."
"Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs."
"Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?"
"To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present."
"Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment."
"We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers."
"It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject."
"By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential."