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When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
If people are informed they will do the right thing. It’s when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
Evil has no limits. If you are a good person, everybody expects you to be good. If you are very good then you become Albert Schweitzer or Mother Theresa. Then you’re very good because you are helping people. But evil has no limits.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
I love grocery shopping. It’s one of my favorite things. I don’t want to become an ordering-food-online person.
Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest market opportunities. And that’s a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would’ve become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I’d be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
It was always a dream for me as a kid to become the No 1 DJ in the world.
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are – and who we will become.
There’s got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
As you think, so shall you become.
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
If we’re not careful, we become that which we most fear.
When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it’ll become a headache.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
There is no love which does not become help.
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn’t resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
‘Salaryitis’ is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
You can always become better.
To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
The more successful I become, the more I need a man.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
NATO‘s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.
I’m happy with the person I become.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
The Welsh are all actors. It’s only the bad ones who become professional.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Life’s too short to dwell on things. When you go through experiences that are bad, it’s a good thing. You learn from it – become a stronger person. Life is a roller coaster, and you don’t know what’s going to be thrown at you next, so all you can do is give it your best shot.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It’s like, without it, I’m not me. You can’t be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can’t stress that enough.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.
We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We’re meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time – you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I’d like to say ‘Have confidence and love yourself.’
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means ‘serving officers daughters association.’ I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
I’ve kind of become used to making new friends.
Life doesn’t always go according to plan, and we don’t always act in a way that represents who we are. What matters is that these moments become teaching moments.
The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
The human race‘s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
I know I haven‘t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
If you stick around long enough, you’re going to become fashionable eventually.
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor‘s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
I don’t care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I’ve grown older I’ve become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn’t like what I do, that’s up to them, I really don’t care.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Just because I made it look easy doesn’t mean that it was and you don’t work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.
I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in ‘Lord of the Flies.’
All my characters are me. I’m not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think ‘I wonder what that feels like.’ Because for me, they’re all me.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It’s possible. And it’s your turn. So go for it. It’s never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, ‘Do you know who I am?’
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
I began by listening to my mother’s collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
Life doesn’t offer you promises whatsoever so it’s very easy to become, ‘Whatever happened to… ?’ It’s great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
We work to become, not to acquire.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
