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What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse? — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. — Eric Drooker

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. — Suzanne Vega

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. — Ernst Mach

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light. — Shaun Hick

Seeing your friend's penis and riding it hard moved us beyond the point of no return. — Becca Lee

You come into this world alone, and you go out of it alone. As soon as you make peace with that, the sooner you learn there's no point being afraid. — Caroline Mitchell

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me. — Angela Ruggiero

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle. — Etheridge Knight

In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change. — Seneca.

There's a short circuit between my brain and my tongue, thus "Leave me the fuck alone" comes out as "Well, maybe. Sure. I guess I can see your point. — David Sedaris

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. — Etgar Keret

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

The point to remember, of course, when considering the universe at large is that we don't actually know what is in our own solar system. Now, — Bill Bryson

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. — Sara Genn

Perhaps he had been looking for that branching point in his life where he had stepped down the wrong path. He — Brandon Sanderson

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point. — Mark Zuckerberg

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is. — John Cage

The points are not the point; the point is poetry. — Allan Wolf

I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team. — Marc-Andre Grondin

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? — Jack McDevitt

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for. — Venus Williams

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I usually find stuff that I hope no one really knows or cares about. If I'm ripping off something that's already brilliant, what's the point? — Gold Panda

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs. Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit. — J.D. Robb

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Ellen G. White

Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance? — Stephanie Perkins

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

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new. — Andrew Root

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point. — William McDonough

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it. — Graham Kendall

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock. — Kingoro Hashimoto

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ... — Ann Beattie

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful. — Tammy Bruce

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner

Rude is arrogance. Rude is feeling like you're above people. Getting to the point of things ain't rude, sugar. — Belle Aurora

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it? — Lisa Samson

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. — Emil Cioran

When I'm playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots. — Kyrie Irving

There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit. — Jason Aldean

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. — Jane Jacobs

The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions. That — David Allen

I don't see any point in nihilism ... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest homebuilders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients. — William Krisel

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin. — Niki Lauda

When we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our happiest moment selecting it in retrospective — Orhan Pamuk

Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin. — Lauren Lola

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself. — Seth

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action. — Adolf Hitler

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) — Patti Smith

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. — Warren Buffett

What does it take to get you to the point where you have to kill your brother? It's biblical, it's huge. It's so personal. — Emilio Estevez

I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought. — Ilyas Kassam

Because I have a feeling most people who ahve met you get the urge to kill you at one point or another — Jus Accardo

The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to? — N. T. Wright

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

For some people, "the point of no return" begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others' existence. — C. JoyBell C.

When I'm working on something and I get to the point where I feel it getting interesting, that's my reward. — Hans-Peter Lindstrom

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point. — Dan Ariely

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. — Madeleine L'Engle

America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. — Jimmy Webb

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby! — John Lennon

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. — Deepak Chopra

Morality begins at the point of a gun. — Mao Zedong

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats. — Paulo Coelho

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling. — Jermaine O'Neal

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself. — Melissa Etheridge

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it. — Owen Barfield

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance. — Dean Koontz

When you are at your lowest point, those that stay at your side will love you the most in hopes of helping to see you through your pain. — Shenita Etwaroo

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things. — Chili Davis

It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it's most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated. — Philipp Meyer

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives? — Kyo Maclear

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. — Hubert Selby Jr.

All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point. — Stephen Curry

The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus — John Paul Warren

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. — Dean Koontz

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Einstein — Kate Messner

I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection. — Jon Lellenberg

I'm at the point where I just ... don't. I know that doesn't make any fucking sense, but it's how I feel. I don't. — Kim Holden

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist. — Fernand Point

The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense. — Alfie Kohn

Surfing is not my strong point. And ... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color. — Lori Loughlin

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories. — Niall Williams

At one point he had covered more than seven tenths of the earth's surface. — Chris Cleave

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry. — Charles Todd

I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ???? — Emma Paul

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. — Dave Matthes

Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it. — Bennett Madison

The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws. — Erik Qualman