"Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood."
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"Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal."
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"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
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"I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows."
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"What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming."
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"The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace."
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"Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming."
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"Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was."
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"the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'."
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"The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou."
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"Action and becoming are one."
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"If only he can get over becoming a NERD."
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"It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan."
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"There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster."
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"Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming."
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"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."
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"For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel."
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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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"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree."
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