quotes about Point Break
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Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.
-- Al Gore -
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
-- Cara CastronuovaSource : "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.
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One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.
-- Dan Barker -
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A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.
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You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.
-- Dinaw MengestuSource : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.
-- Irving Fisher -
There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
-- J. Carter Brown -
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Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago. But you didn't. He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.' Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem. - Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne
-- Jana Oliver -
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
-- Jean GenetSource : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.125, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
-- Jeri RyanSource : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
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I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
-- Jim ButcherSource : Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin
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Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.
-- Luc Tuymans -
What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.
-- Matt LongSource : Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale
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The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.
-- Mohammed Reza PahlaviSource : "Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President". Book by Jimmy Carter, p. 444, 1995.
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In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.
-- Rebecca Twigg -
I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.
-- Robert Redford -
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
-- Russell Baker -
Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.
-- Theodore Millon -
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Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.
-- Toni Nadal -
During the football scene in the Point Break they were playing, and I wasn't slated to be in the football scene. I was like, "I want to play!" So they said, "Go play." It was just a gas. There was a responsibility of being the leading lady - there's a responsibility to that.
-- Lori PettySource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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In Point Break, I was the only woman in there, so it was pretty easy to feel like a sex symbol. You've got all the naked, wet, Hot Chili Peppers, right? You've got Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves and then the whole crew. It was me and 50 dudes the whole time. It was awesome!
-- Lori Petty -
I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.
-- Boi-1da -
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Make your breaking point your turning point.
-- Dennis KimbroSource : Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, p.17, Fawcett