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• 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

  Chef, Wanted

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• I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

  Thandie Newton

  Baby, Skins, Drawbacks

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

  Ai Weiwei

  Dream, Years, Games

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• 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

  Children, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

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• We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Struggle, Terror

  "Bush Says U.S. Is Set to Shift Burden After 'Turning Point'". www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2006.

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• Education is at a turning point

  Howard Gardner

  Howard Gardner (1993). “Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• 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

  Moving, Felt, Very Strong

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Moving, Car, Vacuums

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Successful

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• One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Smart, Mean

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• A turning point in modern history.

  Robert Frost

  America, History, Modern

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Earth, Infinity

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2015

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• Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Two, People

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

  Steven Spielberg

  Careers, Directors, Hollywood

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Years

  "Interview with President Jimmy Carter". Index of coldwar Interviews. Episode-18, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Real, Months, Six

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

  Marc Edwards

  Attention, Half, Vote

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• Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

  Frank McCourt

  Kissing, Emotional, Mouths

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Remember

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Religious, United States

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• 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

  Couple, Good Friend, Army

  "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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