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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.
Steve Case

Left, Behind, Five

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
John Boyd Orr

Country, Nearly, Rapidly

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
Randy Jackson

Serious, Issues, Diabetic

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
Michael Reagan

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.
Michael Reagan

Child, Against, President

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
Major Owens

Society, Getting, Maybe

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
Charisma Carpenter

Teacher, Dad, Heart

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
Ray Liotta

Good, Small, Put

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite

Life, Success, Game

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Made, Decisions, Question

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Society, Reality, Both

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
Robert Teeter

Goal, Getting, Possible

My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.
Lee Myung-bak

Experience, Wife, Job

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.
George Papandreou

Change, Down, Country

Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.
Jim Evans

Work, Baseball, Two

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
Cobi Jones

Growing, League, Maturing

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
James Spader

History, Down, Through

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
Mike Johanns

Ready, Animal, Industry

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
Ivor Novello

Dreams, Career, Composer

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Danny Glover

Education, Freedom, School

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
Suzanne Fields

Learning, Challenge, Serious

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
Sanford I. Weill

Life, American, President

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley

God, Knows, Matters

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mark E. Hyman

Time, Children, Thought

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
Graham Swift

Life, Fear, Human

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack

Director, Largely, Burt

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
Nick Clooney

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
Nick Clooney

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.
Joschka Fischer

Tomorrow, Real, Balance

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
Camilla Belle

Emotional, End, Nothing

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