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“We became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!”
Dakota Fanning
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.”
William Shakespeare
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
Cary Grant
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist”
Sally Kempton
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.”
George Soros
“The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.”
William Langewiesche
“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”
Marshall McLuhan
“[A little more than a year after the comic entered syndication, it was collected in a book that became a bestseller -- which helped the newspaper client list grow faster.] I was not prepared for the resulting attention, ... Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and the inhibiting quality of feeling watched, I valued my anonymous, boring life. In fact, I didn't see how I could write honestly without it. A year later, I moved out west, got an unlisted phone number, stopped giving interviews, and tried to fly as low under the radar as possible. Of course, some reporters took this as a personal challenge to intrude, but in general, my quiet life let me concentrate on my work.”
Bill Watterson
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