Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
Tony Campolo

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
Salma Hayek

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
Harrison Ford

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
James Brown

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
Marilyn Hacker

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Jock Sturges

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.
Jock Sturges

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
Lisa Marie Presley

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.
River Phoenix

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
Stephen Ambrose

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Al Sharpton

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker