It becomes an emperor to die standing.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another – and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It’s like staring at the mirror all day.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it...

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

When you’re little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can’t predict how the masses will react.

When you make a movie, it’s just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

When you get to readin’ about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

That’s where I began to ask questions that maybe don’t have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I’m at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that’s when I’m most myself.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when...

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

It’s flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it’s not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it’s the only picture you’ve ever made.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.’

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it’s a very safe place.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson’s Column – pigeons dump on you because you’re there.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It’s almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it’s only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.