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  • Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton
  • I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further. -- Simon McBurney
  • I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way. -- Lyall Watson
  • I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling. -- Gina Torres
  • Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point. -- Mason Cooley
  • I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point -- Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
  • I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point. -- Rondal Partridge
  • He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole. -- Jeaniene Frost
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  • The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style. -- Auliq Ice
  • When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do. -- Criss Jami
  • Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony. -- Nick Denton
  • As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days. -- Rumer Godden
  • That 'hundreds and hundreds' was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I've seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I've seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those. -- Jerry Angelo
  • If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions? -- Ann Coulter
  • There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie. -- Warren Beatty
  • With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic. -- Michael Hirst
  • There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? -- Neil Jordan
  • If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious. -- Norm MacDonald
  • I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it. -- Ben Barnes
  • There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage. -- Cindy Gallop
  • As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required. -- Raul Castro
  • There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. -- Bryan Singer
  • I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people. -- Paul Watson
  • You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. -- Ken Kesey
  • When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. -- Taylor Swift
  • When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done. -- Seth Gordon
  • Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point. -- Amanda Palmer
  • If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus. -- Paul Allen
  • In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it. -- Asif Kapadia
  • Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. -- Pico Iyer
  • Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. -- Nas
  • Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise. -- George Michael
  • The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material. -- Roberto Orci
  • What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?. -- Yash Chopra
  • The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. -- Humphrey Bogart
  • A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point. -- Andy Stanley
  • The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it. -- Irving Paul Lazar
  • If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in? -- Troy Glaus
  • If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. -- Edward Tufte
  • You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long. -- Shel Silverstein
  • There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality. -- Tim Fargo
  • Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. -- Mark Twain
  • I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point. -- Ajay Devgan
  • You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression. -- Tom Verlaine
  • I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme. -- Girl Talk
  • Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music. -- Girl Talk
  • Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. -- Deborah Tannen
  • When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor. -- Michel Hazanavicius
  • The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... -- Barack Obama
  • I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade. -- William Eckhardt
  • As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. -- Moby
  • The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. -- Thomas McGuane
  • Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films. -- Seth Rogen
  • There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it. -- Kate DiCamillo
  • If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble. -- John F. Kerry
  • The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. -- Jeremy Campbell
  • Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point. -- Richard Turner
  • I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives. -- David Sedaris
  • I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality. -- Jonathan Demme
  • I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move. -- Harvey Penick
  • I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody. -- Mic Geronimo
  • What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live. -- Manoj Arora
  • I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base. -- Tom Petty
  • Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie. -- Simon Kinberg
  • There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people. -- Lawrence Weiner
  • The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. -- James A. Baldwin
  • The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. -- James A. Baldwin
  • There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people. -- Aidan Turner
  • I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. -- Shelby Foote
  • The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather. -- Tift Merritt
  • Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. -- Richard Louv
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