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• It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

  Douglas Coupland

  Events, Who We Are, Remember

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of picturing his own face while he climaxed. He hadn't denied it, either, and next time he'd slept with her, he'd made sure to scream, "Strider" at the pivotal moment." --Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat--

  Gena Showalter

  Hate, Too Much, Next

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• My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

  Stephen Levine

  Oxygen, Play, Roles

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• Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Practice, Life Is

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• 106 & Park, Freestyle Friday, that was real pivotal. I feel like he has the right to do that, he comes from that era so he has the right to do that.

  Ab-Soul

  Friday, Real, Parks

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  Camille Paglia

  Winning, Doors, Flames

  "Too Late For Obama to Turn It Around?". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Opposites, Age

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• What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

  Ben Macintyre

  Senior, Games, What If

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• I was also very lucky to be able to work with talented people while I was learning. I didn't actually go to fashion school. I worked with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy which was a really pivotal experience for me. He taught me a lot about being faithful to your own voice and to really believe in your own voice and that's made a big difference.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Believe, School

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.

  Lucy Liu

  Country, Chinese, Age

  "Lucy Liu Talks 3 Needles". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. November 27, 2006.

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• It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.

  John Ratey

  Moving, Play, Brain

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• Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we attacked now, this minute, we had to keep on and on attacking until the enemy was run off his feet and the war was won. If we bogged down or paused for breath even for a second, we would be overrun again.

  Lee Child

  Running, War, July

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• As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

  Jim Lee

  Artist, Design, Important

  "Justice League artist Jim Lee". Interview with Web Behrens, www.timeout.com. September 7, 2011.

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• This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Age, Pivotal Moments, Able

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• War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

  Judith Hand

  Uplifting, War, Caring

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• Suffrage is the pivotal right.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

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• The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

  W. Arthur Porter

  Dream, Creativity, Opportunity

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• Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Who We Are, Helping

  Donald O. Clifton (1992). “Soar with Your Strengths”

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• We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

  Jackie Huggins

  Leadership, Country, Ideas

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• Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love.
  In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Being In Love

  Mark Doty (1996). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.

  Zach Braff

  Play, People, Suffering

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• The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Light, Events

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