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DM: For me, my mother was preparing [me] when I was a child to become a doctor, but I really didn't want to.
Maybe I should become an historian, or maybe a reporter.
The way it does this is it comes out at night, crawls to the top of a sand dune, and because it's got a matte black shell, is able to radiate heat out to the night sky and become slightly cooler than its surroundings.
But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
He once said that science in his generation had become like a razor blade in the hands of a three-year-old.
For the children we are raising, the injustice of today could become the ordinary of tomorrow.
However, if I today, then you tomorrow, maybe even more of us someday, if we embrace our right to look like ourselves, then in the world that's been violently whitewashed, we will become the pinpricks of color pushing through, much like those widows of Vrindavan.
An area that was edgy-artsy is now starting to become much cooler and engage a lot more people.
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts.
We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
For if we keep our independent decision-making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.
If you spend five minutes with somebody, you start looking beyond their facial appearance, and the people who you're initially attracted to may seem boring and you lose interest in them, and the people who you didn't immediately seek out, because you didn't find them particularly attractive, become attractive people because of their personality.
I sign up for a two-year program to become a lady health visitor.
These are stem cells that we create from specific sources, and we can drive them to become heart cells, and they start beating in culture.
The trick here is my brother would become an experimental poet, not a businessman, but the intention was really good.
And on a particularly dark night of December of 2004, I sat down with my family, and I said that I had become very disillusioned.
But then, as the viewership kept growing and kept growing, I started getting letters from people, and it was starting to become clear that it was more than just a nice-to-have.
Those dashboards the teachers have, you can go log in right now and you can essentially become a coach for your kids, your nephews, your cousins, or maybe some kids at the Boys and Girls Club.
This has become my favorite way of videographing just about any space.
One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.
And they have become my guiding principles in life.
No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum, and no longer the sole domain of mother England, it has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth.
And it forced me to become a lot more transparent, a lot more willing to listen, a lot more willing to be reverse-mentored from lower.
And sometimes it gets big enough to become official.
Instead, they've become, sadly, uninspiring and uncreative organizations that rely so heavily on market research and polling and focus groups that they end up all saying the same thing, pretty much regurgitating back to us what we already want to hear at the expense of putting forward bold and creative ideas.
I have become more and more uncomfortable with this perception of God over the years.
I had become a mother and he was celebrating his 77th birthday, and suddenly I was very, very afraid.
I've become uncomfortable when I'm separated from my laptop.
Only after we learned to pass knowledge from one generation to the next, did civilization become possible.
For me, the Internet began as a useful tool and now has become something I rely on for my actual daily existence.
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