I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U. S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities. . . Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U. S. expansion and imperialism.
I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.
When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.
New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.
Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.
I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.
All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?