Juncture Quotes - Page 2

• Llega un punto en el que has agotado tus oportunidades interpretando a tipos buenos. Llevo suficiente tiempo, creo que tengo derecho a explorar un poco. Pero lo que vi allí fue una oportunidad de interpretar a un personaje diferente de lo que el público esperaba. Una oportunidad de tomar su cruda experiencia de mí -de mi iconografía, si se quiere- y darle la vuelta en un momento apropiado de la película para que fuera útil al proceso de contar la historia.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Archivo Star Wars: Harrison Ford, Artista Solo". Entrevista con William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. Junio de 2002.

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• At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

  Bill Gates

  Keys, Next Level, Tools

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• Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Tea, Littles

  P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.53, The Floating Press

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• Cada uno de nosotros puede hacer mucho para cambiar las cosas. Estamos en una coyuntura peligrosa en la historia de la humanidad. ... Tenemos que defender nuestros principios y valores, los derechos humanos, las libertades civiles y el Estado de Derecho internacional. Si no lo hacemos, nuestro mundo seguirá cayendo en el caos.

  Bianca Jagger

  Rights, Our World, Law

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• At this unprecedented juncture in our history I have a word for you. Do not be disheartened by our temporary defeat ; be cheerful and optimistic. Above all, never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on earth which can keep India in bondage. India will be free and, that too, soon. JAl-HIND !

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Optimistic, Army, Destiny

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• Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?

  Lauren Kate

  Past, Needs, Ease

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1085, Delacorte Press

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• Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

  Randeep Hooda

  Romantic, Different, Hopeless

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• I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Joyce Carol Oates: 'I had a dream about a woman whose make-up was dried and cracking, she made a fool of herself'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Pregnancy, Eggs

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• We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Meaningful, Selfish, Reality

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, July 10, 2012.

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• The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

  Jill Purce

  Decision, Greek, Growth

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• In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture, materially depend, in his judgment, the individual and aggregate prosperity of the citizens of the United States; their relief from the embarrassments they now experience; their character as a people; the cause of good government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Character, Light

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.4

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• The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Effort, Challenges

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• La señal de la cruz es el arma más terrible contra el demonio. Por eso, la Iglesia desea no sólo que la tengamos continuamente ante nuestra mente para que nos recuerde lo que valen nuestras almas y lo que le costaron a Jesucristo, sino también que la hagamos nosotros mismos en cada momento: cuando nos acostamos, cuando nos despertamos durante la noche, cuando nos levantamos, cuando comenzamos cualquier acción y, sobre todo, cuando somos tentados.

  Juan Vianney

  Jesus, Night, Soul

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• An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

  Nathan Rabin

  Art, Long, Important

  "Nathan Rabin @ Sundance '11: Day Five". www.avclub.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

  Ted Malloch

  Motivation, Competition, Moral

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Book, Humble, Writing

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• Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.

  Jim Nollman

  Life, Happiness, Art

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

  Al Gore

  World, Truth Is, Critical

  "Al Gore | La verdad más importante. El poder de tu propia voz". Entrevista con Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.

  Martin Schulz

  Past, Blood, Years

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Profound, Abandoned

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.384, Bantam

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• Cuando la pasión no se alimenta, se transforma en necesidad. En esta coyuntura, el matrimonio se convierte en una idea fija en la mente del burgués, siendo el único medio por el que puede conquistar a una mujer y apropiársela para sus usos.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Passion, Mean

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• To switch right into creativity usually takes a bit of time, and this came up right at that juncture where I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to work with somebody I really respect in a new medium.

  Trent Reznor

  Creativity, Opportunity, Okay

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Cuando uno olvida la distinción entre método y verdad, se vuelve tontamente propenso a responder a cualquier pregunta que no pueda ser respondida desde la posición ventajosa de la percha metodológica particular de uno, descartándola como sin sentido, o emitiendo un pagaré garantizando una solución al problema en alguna coyuntura en el futuro remoto, o simplemente distorsionando la pregunta en una que parezca del tipo que uno realmente puede responder después de todo.

  David Bentley

  Miradas, Respuestas, Amables

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