Point Quotes
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By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind of strange. People would always assume I'd be into like more modern R&B, which is a stereotype, but that was kind of what was expected. And I had all these guitar magazines of all these musicians that didn't look like me. So I assumed Jimmi Hendrix was one of those.
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I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen.
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The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
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At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?
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The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.
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There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.
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I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
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There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
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I take the point of view that missing an important trade is a much more serious error than making a bad trade.
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What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.
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The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.
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In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.
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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
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Watching the ball is always a good starting point.
