I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

I haven’t paid for anything since I became famous.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I didn’t think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest...