#became

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit. ↗

— Morley Safer

#became #because #habit #i #i think

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#acting #became #businessman #came #dreams

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#became #disillusioned #feel #generation #i

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#added #authentic #became #bits #built

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#became #biggest #consumed #fighting #government

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman. ↗

— LeBron James

#businessman #court #first #first time #i

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#became #between #else #first #had

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. ↗

— Henry Taube

#after #aspects #basic #became #between