Became Quotes

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.