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Life is always at some turning point. -- Irwin Edman
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. -- Herb Alpert
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life. -- Keith Urban
It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere. -- Gwen Stefani
I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. -- Thomas Keller
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. -- Max Lerner
All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar. -- John Burnside
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. -- Roh Moo-hyun
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. -- Daniel Craig
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. -- Jim Carrey
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. -- Shiv Khera
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. -- Mark Haddon
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. -- Talcott Parsons
An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. -- Bipasha Basu
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. -- Bede Griffiths
Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future. -- Charles Pelly
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. -- Dave Winfield
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. -- Charles Spurgeon
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy. -- Laura Wasser
Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today. -- Margot Robbie
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one. -- John C. Maxwell
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. -- James Rollins
When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me. -- Victoria Beckham
I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me. -- Drew Barrymore
In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal. -- Richard Carmona
Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment. -- Bill Rancic
Education is at a turning point -- Howard Gardner
A turning point in modern history. -- Robert Frost
...the still point in a turning world. -- T. S. Eliot
Make your breaking point your turning point. -- Dennis Kimbro
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile. -- Warren Cuccurullo
We are each other's reference point at our turning points. -- Elizabeth Fishel
Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life. -- Tarkan
Grace is that turning point from feeling hopeless to becoming empowered. -- Deborah Brodie
The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point. -- Jeffrey Skilling
The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth. -- Ellyn Stern
Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. -- Dan Abrams
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. -- Mary Cassatt
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. -- Corrie Ten Boom
We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror. -- George W. Bush
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. -- Saul Bellow
Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension. -- Tariq al-Hashimi
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith . -- Os Guinness
... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty. -- John Boyne
The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. -- Warren Christopher
I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that. -- Elie Wiesel
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. -- Cliff Stearns
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf. -- Henry David Thoreau
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy. -- Brian Cowen
Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions. -- Abram Gitspof
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny. -- Denis Waitley
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. -- David Suzuki
The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis. -- Napoleon Hill
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. -- Pierre Salinger
I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way. -- Fred Ikle
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean. -- James Taylor
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. -- Kingoro Hashimoto
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. -- Franz Kafka
Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity. -- Yoko Ono
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself. -- Henri de Lubac
As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences. -- Michael J. Fox
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... -- Arthur C. Clarke
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. -- Sheryl WuDunn
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. -- Bryan Magee
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. -- Bobby Fischer
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas. -- Danny Hillis
I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care. -- Nancy Reagan
Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards. -- Rajneesh
I think for anyone who's gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end. -- Deborah Norville
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it. -- David Nicholls
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is. -- T. S. Eliot
I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society. -- Paul Krugman
Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls. -- Joe Taslim
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
For the sake of your dreams, don't create negative brands for yourself, else you scare away opportunities that are meant to be your turning point! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The Wire' is similar to 'The Walking Dead' in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story. -- Seth Gilliam
It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening. -- Thomas L. Friedman
Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point. -- Leon Trotsky
I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of -- Jamie Oliver
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come. -- Oswald Spengler
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning. -- Samuel Daniel
In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning point in his own development. -- Manning Marable
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. -- Michael Ignatieff
It is time to rekindle the spirit of the Renaissancee to achieve a golden age that will be a turning point for human productivity and quality of life. -- Joel Garreau
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. -- David Suzuki
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway. -- Anne Frank
But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none? -- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early. -- Deniz Gamze Erguven
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which. -- Ferdinand Mount
The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal. -- Louis O. Kelso
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. -- Barry McGuire
I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it". -- Lauren Hart
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution -- Prince Charles
When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career. -- Eric Ripert
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.("For The Rest Of Her Life") -- Cornell Woolrich
Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport. -- David Millar
Wayne's World was a turning point-after Wayne's World, it was like, "Who is this girl? Where did she come from? Let's give her another job. Have her come in and meet instead of read -- Tia Carrere
The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews. -- Frederick Buechner
Crisis can go on to a critical point or turning point where deciding factors plays their games. It is a point to surrender or survive, stay alive or die. You can rise above the storm. -- Ikechukwu Joseph
When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life. -- John de Ruiter
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter. -- Paul Theroux
In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that perhaps I was working on something that could be very special. -- Mary Ellen Mark

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