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Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. -- Phil Collins
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family. -- Gwen Stefani
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level. -- Meredith Whitney
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. -- Robert Anton Wilson
At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing. -- James Gray
At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart. -- Robert Gottlieb
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle. -- Brett Favre
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. -- Aristotle Onassis
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -- Franz Kafka
I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest. -- Sienna Miller
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. -- Philip Johnson
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more. -- Ken Kesey
At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. -- Eddie Vedder
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration. -- Paulo Freire
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less. -- Pete Sampras
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. -- Carlos Ghosn
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often. -- Christopher Lee
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. -- Hugh Jackman
At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one. -- Marc Andreesen
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. -- Oliver Stone
You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times. -- Johnny Galecki
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. -- Henry James
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People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. -- Kevin Bacon
Also, at a certain point relentlessness itself can become comedic. -- Allan Weisbecker
I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. -- Len Wein
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. -- Bill Gates
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things. -- Gary Cole
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes. -- Karl Marx
Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny. -- Robin Williams
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. -- Barack Obama
At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both. -- Taylor Swift
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is. -- F. H. Bradley
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. -- Neil Simon
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. -- Franz Kafka
But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them. -- Kelly Lynch
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human. -- D. L. Hughley
From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside. -- Dalai Lama
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. -- William Safire
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. -- Owen Barfield
I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting. -- Mandy Moore
Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them. -- Ann Landers
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. -- Ken Follett
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. -- Bertrand Russell
At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. -- Christopher Hitchens
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose. -- Dick Cheney
You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way. -- Sandra Bernhard
After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken. -- Jodi Picoult
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. -- Will Rogers
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. -- E. P. Thompson
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate. -- Tom Colicchio
Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point. -- Deepika Padukone
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims. -- Margaret Deland
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands. -- Thomas H. Cook
At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving. -- Bill de Blasio
Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. -- Lauren Oliver
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference. -- Jimmy Webb
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change. -- Jean Smart
On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point. -- Geena Davis
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support. -- Graham Hill
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action. -- Bono
At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me. -- Tim Meadows
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right. -- Washington Irving
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are. -- James Surowiecki
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. -- Mark Strand
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point. -- Martin Scorsese
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. -- Anne Sullivan
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. -- Jodi Picoult
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. -- John Updike
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. -- Anne Sullivan
...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. -- Robert Cormier
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. -- Jason Ritter
At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down. -- Lauren Oliver
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. -- Jeff Tweedy
It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking. -- Henry Rollins
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there -- Robin Tunney
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. -- George Berkeley
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. -- Marguerite Moreau
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you. -- Douglas Coupland
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. -- Shimon Attie
There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way. -- Ashton Kutcher
After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd. -- Patrick Rothfuss
It might be true that it is quality time that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. -- Hal Borland
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground. -- Barack Obama
It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point. -- Casey Spooner
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant. -- Mooji
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won. -- Rand Paul
At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. -- Rose Byrne
To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view. -- Ruth Wilson
Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. -- J. A. Jance
At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment. -- Garry Kasparov
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it. -- Alice Mattison
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with. -- Madonna Ciccone
There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity. -- Jill Soloway
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music. -- Herbie Hancock
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them. -- Mary Norton
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return -- Barack Obama
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. -- Edward Burns
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. -- Pierre Schaeffer
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items. -- Yohji Yamamoto
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers." -- Ray Bradbury
At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment. -- Marni Jackson
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around. -- Larry Tesler
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. -- Martin Puryear
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. -- William Hazlitt
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied. -- Herman Melville
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties. -- Raf Simons
At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. -- Vladimir Putin
If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point. -- Salman Rushdie
Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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