Turning Points Quotes - Page 10

• In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Country, Holocaust, Humanity

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• When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Empowerment, Development, Clear

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage

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• I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Eye, Hair, Personality

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Dec 22, 2012

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

  Tarkan

  Moving, Turkeys, Diploma

  "Tarkan Q & A". Tarkan Translations, Interview from official website, tarkantr.blogspot.ru. April 10, 2003.

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• My turning point was my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was then that I, who had dedicated most of my life to penetrate the 'secrets' of the universe, realized that there are no secrets. Life is and will always be a mystery.

  Paulo Coelho

  Secret, Mystery, Life Is

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

  Fran Drescher

  Jobs, Dumb, Television

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• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Transition, Transformation, British

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• I think 26 is the turning point. I’ve got to make up for 10 years of living like a degenerate. I’ve suddenly become conscious of being unhealthy. You’ve spent every bit of free time since [the age of ] 15 in a pub. And suddenly you’re like, ‘Oh God, I don’t want to be this grey ghost sitting there with a pot belly. I’ve got to get it together.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Years, Age

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• The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Way, Indictment

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• The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Historical, Bosnians

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• I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

  Paul Krugman

  Years, Sept 11, Enron

  "The Great Divide". www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2002.

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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