#become

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#affect #angry #away #bad #because

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. ↗

— William Safire

#fighting #known #light #political #previously

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#automatically #become #cynical #how #indication

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ↗

— Saadi

#enemy #enmity #excepting #friend #increases

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. ↗

— Marat Safin

#become #chances #football #football player #i

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#after #am #become #country #emigration

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#become #completely #hit #i #i think

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#always #am #because #become #could

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#basic human rights #become #confidence #daily #daily lives