Quotes about Block (528 quotes)

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.' Votes: 5

Alicia Keys

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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Votes: 4

Michelangelo

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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. Votes: 4

Elbert Hubbard

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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Votes: 4

Erma Bombeck

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Votes: 4

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. Votes: 4

Sophia Loren

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A book that is shut is but a block. Votes: 3

Thomas Fuller

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Block out all the negative energy, and just love. Votes: 3

Ariana Grande

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Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone. Votes: 3

Michael Anti

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Votes: 3

Dan Rather

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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block. Votes: 3

Al Yankovic

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You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness. Votes: 3

Susan Lucci

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Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop. Votes: 3

Ingmar Bergman

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Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. Votes: 3

Joni Mitchell

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. Votes: 3

Auguste Rodin

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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. Votes: 3

Damon Wayans

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One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block Votes: 3

Lisi Harrison

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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block Votes: 3

Jeffery Deaver

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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. Votes: 3

John Calvin

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The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families. Votes: 3

John Boyega

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My favorite part is that 1-on-1 matchup... Block out everything else and stare into that guys eyes. Votes: 3

Dwight Freeney

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Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop. Votes: 3

Steve Nash

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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. Votes: 3

Piers Anthony

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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight. Votes: 3

Zoe Lister-Jones

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Votes: 3

Paul Gauguin

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. Votes: 3

Shaquille O'Neal

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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. Votes: 3

Bill Russell

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. Votes: 3

Carl T. Rowan

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Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper. Votes: 3

Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

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I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block. Votes: 3

Will Chase

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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination. Votes: 3

Hal Borland

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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. Votes: 3

Lewis Grizzard

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Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. Votes: 3

Jeffery Deaver

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This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block. Votes: 3

John Blair

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I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life. Votes: 3

Styles P

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I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. Votes: 3

Frederik Pohl

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I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were. Votes: 3

Katy Perry

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Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary. Votes: 3

Giulio Andreotti

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Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack. Votes: 3

John Boyega

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Votes: 3

Frank Zappa

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I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats. Votes: 3

DMX

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You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. Votes: 1

Mary Manin Morrissey

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Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be. Votes: 1

Jennifer Hudson

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A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. Votes: 1

Cullen Hightower

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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. Votes: 1

Katarina Witt

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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future. Votes: 1

Joel A. Barker

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. Votes: 1

Thomas J. Watson

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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person. Votes: 1

Carl Lewis

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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Votes: 1

Liu Xiaobo

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During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound. Votes: 1

Russel Honore

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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. Votes: 1

Quincy Jones

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For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit. Votes: 1

Ellen Hopkins

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Votes: 1

Pope Paul VI

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When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. Votes: 1

Robert Rodriguez

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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes. Votes: 1

John Prendergast

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I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. Votes: 1

Tom Hooper

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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. Votes: 1

William Hague

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The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. Votes: 1

Juan Williams

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When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world. Votes: 1

Bill O'Reilly

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I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that. Votes: 1

Amy Heckerling

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Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. Votes: 1

Wil Wheaton

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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end. Votes: 1

Gareth Bale

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I've never had writer's block. Votes: 0

David Byrne

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Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool. Votes: 0

William Feather

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I don't believe in writer's block. Votes: 0

Gabrielle Zevin

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Prescription for writer's block: fear of poverty. Votes: 0

Peter Mayle

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Attachment is the strongest block to realization. Votes: 0

Neem Karoli Baba

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The abuse of cabmen in a block. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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Coal miners don't get coal miners' block. Votes: 0

John Green

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The building block of every community is family. Votes: 0

Paul Singer

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Workaholism is a block, not a building block. Votes: 0

Julia Cameron

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I only get writer's block about once a day. Votes: 0

Sue Grafton

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Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe. Votes: 0

Frank Zappa

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Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. Votes: 0

Norman Mailer

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Where I come from, the block become your daddy. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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Love could never bloom in a concrete block room. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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An unread book is just a block of paper. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? Votes: 0

Alex Turner

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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. Votes: 0

David Guterson

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A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies. Votes: 0

Brian May

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The president deserves someone who can block for his policies. Votes: 0

Judd Gregg

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Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Your successful past will block your visions of the future. Votes: 0

Joel A. Barker

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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) Votes: 0

Scott Westerfeld

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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem. Votes: 0

Mackenzie Crook

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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. Votes: 0

Antoni Tapies

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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. Votes: 0

Diane Ackerman

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When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going. Votes: 0

Sandra Tsing Loh

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I seen a pig so big it'd block out the sun. Votes: 0

Ira Glass

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Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition. Votes: 0

Arthur Desmond

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A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. Votes: 0

Apuleius

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For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Apparently I ain't the only cat on the block digs cheetos. Votes: 0

Ron White

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Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. Votes: 0

Meg Cabot

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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. Votes: 0

Carl Hiaasen

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Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page. Votes: 0

Regina Brett

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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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If the artist starts evaluating himself, it's an enormous block, isn't it? Votes: 0

Philip Guston

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Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. Votes: 0

Robert B. Parker

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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. Votes: 0

Walter Jon Williams

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Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds. Votes: 0

David Travis

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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. Votes: 0

will.i.am

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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Votes: 0

Paul Cezanne

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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time. Votes: 0

George Takei

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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S. Votes: 0

Mamata Banerjee

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It is better to be a stepping stone than a stumbling block Votes: 0

Mark Samraj

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With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. Votes: 0

James Rollins

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I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on. Votes: 0

Edmund Kemper

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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society. Votes: 0

William Ruckelshaus

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It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments Votes: 0

Franz Beckenbauer

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A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love. Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block. Votes: 0

Darby Conley

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Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block. Votes: 0

Shawn Achor

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My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. Votes: 0

Mary Garden

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Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. Votes: 0

Joe Haldeman

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Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization. Votes: 0

Ken Blackwell

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. Votes: 0

Emo Philips

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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. Votes: 0

Richard Powers

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I'm constantly battling writer's block; it usually takes me two hours to write anything. Votes: 0

Martha Grimes

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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. Votes: 0

Francis Parkman

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AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period. Votes: 0

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

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The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. Votes: 0

Paul Dano

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Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. Votes: 0

Jerry Seinfeld

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If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block. Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey

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Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day. Votes: 0

Linda Hamilton

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Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time. Votes: 0

Jeanne Moreau

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Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block, Votes: 0

Niklas Zennstrom

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Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it. Votes: 0

Paul Buchheit

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If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block? Votes: 0

Cory Doctorow

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The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness. Votes: 0

Werner Erhard

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When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. Votes: 0

John Henry Holland

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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you. Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. Votes: 0

Jennifer Egan

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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. Votes: 0

William Stafford

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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. Votes: 0

Matt Haig

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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. Votes: 0

Peter Diamandis

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You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time. Votes: 0

Sam Altman

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My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop Votes: 0

Redman

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The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see. Votes: 0

Jeph Jacques

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I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast. Votes: 0

Sid Luckman

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The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission. Votes: 0

Andy Stanley

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Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Votes: 0

Malcolm Gladwell

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I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years. Votes: 0

Jerry Stiller

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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. Votes: 0

Bill Moyers

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What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise Votes: 0

Doreen Virtue

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Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life. Votes: 0

Philip Toshio Sudo

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Either lead or follow, but please don't block the road for those who move forward Votes: 0

Phil Karn

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The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality. Votes: 0

Steve Pavlina

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What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. Votes: 0

Jennifer Capriati

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There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker. Votes: 0

Ashwin Sanghi

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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. Votes: 0

Jeffery Deaver

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Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future. Votes: 0

Nikki Rowe

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Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research. Votes: 0

Sophy Burnham

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Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115) Votes: 0

Malcolm Gladwell

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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Votes: 0

Roland Barthes

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Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. Votes: 0

Hank Hanegraaff

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We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. Votes: 0

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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When words come out of your mouth, do your ears just block all incoming sound waves? Votes: 0

Amethyst Marie

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As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. Votes: 0

Phaedrus

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I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block. Votes: 0

Diana Gabaldon

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I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi. Votes: 0

Lauryn Hill

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That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time. Votes: 0

Bette Midler

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The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. Votes: 0

Swami Nithyananda

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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf

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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers. Votes: 0

Victoria Osteen

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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming. Votes: 0

Rakim

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you. Votes: 0

Marsha Sinetar

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If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete! Votes: 0

Eddie Izzard

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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. Votes: 0

Mary Garden

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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. Votes: 0

Don Roff

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There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music. Votes: 0

Ben Harper

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When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph. Votes: 0

Ella Fitzgerald

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Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out. Votes: 0

Dwight Howard

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I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block. Votes: 0

Patrick Kelly

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Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block Votes: 0

Big Daddy Kane

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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. Votes: 0

Ann Richards

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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. Votes: 0

Tom Hayden

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Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block. Votes: 0

Ricky Gervais

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The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block. Votes: 0

Elisha Cuthbert

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The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. Votes: 0

Julia Child

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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! Votes: 0

Nathan Myhrvold

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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. Votes: 0

Ruskin Bond

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Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success." Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house. Votes: 0

Nicki Minaj

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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. Votes: 0

Adam Gopnik

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I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block. Votes: 0

Etgar Keret

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The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. Votes: 0

Auguste Rodin

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I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life! Votes: 0

Andy Cohen

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Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away! Votes: 0

Gloria Estefan

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Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. Votes: 0

Thomas Steven Molnar

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Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone. Votes: 0

L.R. Knost

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If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block. Votes: 0

Nils Kjaer

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I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment. Votes: 0

Wentworth Miller

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Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world. Votes: 0

Matthew Donnelly

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The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda Votes: 0

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society. Votes: 0

Ralph Nader

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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something. Votes: 0

Randy Newman

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If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three. Votes: 0

Robert Motherwell

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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation Votes: 0

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block. Votes: 0

David Liss

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Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not. Votes: 0

LL Cool J

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With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. Votes: 0

Maria Sharapova

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If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block." Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block. Votes: 0

Craig Robinson

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When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots. Votes: 0

Oscar Robertson

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A block of blood should not have the word "cake" after it...they might as well say "shite gateau Votes: 0

Karl Pilkington

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Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move. Votes: 0

Ron Livingston

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My blood G cold, never seen my dad cry. And I'm a bleed your block til the cash dry! Votes: 0

Vinnie Paz

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Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back. Votes: 0

Captain Chief

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Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. Votes: 0

Steve Martin

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Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks. Votes: 0

Carl Andre

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The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. Votes: 0

Michael Connelly

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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace. Votes: 0

Colm Toibin

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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint. Votes: 0

Richard Carmona

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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8. Votes: 0

Nate Berkus

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Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction. Votes: 0

Amishi Jha

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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. Votes: 0

Brand Blanshard

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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God. Votes: 0

Henri Nouwen

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(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group. Votes: 0

Jimmy Carter

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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. Votes: 0

Billy Bob Thornton

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It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. Votes: 0

Christopher Bram

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Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood. Votes: 0

Daniel Goleman

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I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker. Votes: 0

Phil Daniels

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Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path. Votes: 0

William Barclay

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Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change. Votes: 0

Alex Steffen

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Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers. Votes: 0

Steve Nash

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I'm tired of hearing so many lies, please someone would invent a chipset installed on my ear that would block lies! Votes: 0

Hamid Karima

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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. Votes: 0

Orville Wright

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I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk. Votes: 0

Jane Roberts

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For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake. Votes: 0

Giada De Laurentiis

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I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas. Votes: 0

Mireille Guiliano

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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. Votes: 0

William James

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The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. Votes: 0

Steven Michael Quezada

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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. Votes: 0

Mary Garden

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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block. Votes: 0

Garrison Keillor

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Back on the block they probably call Big Al Fat Albert but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends. Votes: 0

Derrick Wolf

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It's hot on my block, somebody turn the fan on I've been paid, I'm just tryin to turn my mans on. Votes: 0

Slim Thug

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Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. Votes: 0

Charles Ghigna

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Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. Votes: 0

Mark Rubinstein

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Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father. Votes: 0

Iyanla Vanzant

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An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 0

Janine Benyus

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Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. Votes: 0

Tony Jaa

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The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? Votes: 0

B.K.S. Iyengar

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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Votes: 0

Bjarke Ingels

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Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. Votes: 0

Tatchakorn Yeerum

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Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage. Votes: 0

Lil' Mama

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If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions. Votes: 0

Daymond John

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In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage. Votes: 0

Lil Mama

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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is. Votes: 0

Don Johnson

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I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters. Votes: 0

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be. Votes: 0

David Johansen

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Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually. Votes: 0

Chet Faker

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People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 0

Janine Benyus

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Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense. Votes: 0

John Bevere

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If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. Votes: 0

Ralph Merkle

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LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination. Votes: 0

Ayah Bdeir

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Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction. Votes: 0

Colleen O'Connor

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My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains. Votes: 0

Mika Brzezinski

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Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil. Votes: 0

Jane Asher

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I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason. Votes: 0

Errol Morris

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The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone. Votes: 0

Cory Booker

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Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America. Votes: 0

Mona Charen

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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it... Votes: 0

Martha Graham

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We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. Votes: 0

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block. Votes: 0

William J. Clinton

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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won. Votes: 0

Andre Boucourechliev

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Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her. Votes: 0

Yulia Tymoshenko

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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Warren

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Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without? Votes: 0

Rob Thurman

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I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers. Votes: 0

Rachel Nichols

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Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. Votes: 0

Andre Maurois

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A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable? Votes: 0

Henry Manne

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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. Votes: 0

Yoko Ono

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It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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The beauty of doing #" film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. Votes: 0

Michel Gondry

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If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. Votes: 0

Bill Hicks

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Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America. Votes: 0

Mike Pompeo

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In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like. Votes: 0

Sarah Palin

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I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up. Votes: 0

Edie Falco

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You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster Votes: 0

Nas

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You will not be able to envision your future until you block out the words of those who constantly scorch you with discouraging remarks Votes: 0

Evy Michaels

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One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big. Votes: 0

Frank Knight

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MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT. Votes: 0

Patricia Briggs

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Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! Votes: 0

Tom Selleck

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It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable. Votes: 0

James Ramsey Ullman

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We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses. Votes: 0

Richard Louv

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When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision. Votes: 0

Anthony Marra

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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely. Votes: 0

Jerry Garcia

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Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset. Votes: 0

Robert Cheeke

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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view. Votes: 0

Gary Carter

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I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding. Votes: 0

John Searle

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This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself! Votes: 0

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change. Votes: 0

Gary Rydstrom

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A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval. Votes: 0

Sadao Araki

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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. Votes: 0

Wyclef Jean

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The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. Votes: 0

Renzo Piano

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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. Votes: 0

Mary J. Blige

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I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place. Votes: 0

Paul Ryan

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Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. Votes: 0

Raquel Cepeda

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A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own. Votes: 0

Lester Bangs

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I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember. Votes: 0

Phoebe Stone

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You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time. Votes: 0

James N. Frey

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I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million. Votes: 0

William Henry Vanderbilt

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I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.' Votes: 0

John Searle

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I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. Votes: 0

Andy Rooney

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Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go. Votes: 0

Julie Connor

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I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film. Votes: 0

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it. Votes: 0

Jon Katz

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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline. Votes: 0

R. L. Stine

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Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. Votes: 0

Pericles

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Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. Votes: 0

Gene Spafford

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I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't. Votes: 0

Anthony Kiedis

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In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Votes: 0

Keith Johnstone

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That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it. Votes: 0

Ralph Nader

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Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. Votes: 0

James F. Bell, III

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In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age. Votes: 0

Tim Bishop

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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer. Votes: 0

Ani DiFranco

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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. Votes: 0

Fred Saberhagen

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House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those who tried 2 block passage on this. Votes: 0

Frank Pallone

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There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement. Votes: 0

Jeff Sessions

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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. Votes: 0

Jeremy Paxman

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Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood? Votes: 0

Giancarlo Esposito

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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. Votes: 0

Mary J. Blige

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The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality. Votes: 0

Steve Pavlina

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Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times. Votes: 0

Queen Latifah

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You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands. Votes: 0

Aulus Persius Flaccus

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The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it? Votes: 0

Suzanne Weyn

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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices. Votes: 0

Lech Walesa

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When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him. Votes: 0

Carrie Fisher

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I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money. Votes: 0

Method Man

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It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere. Votes: 0

Jessica Sorensen

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Large fish such as tuna are shown already cut into fillets and bought by the block. Fillets should be almost transparent. Avoid tuna that looks rainbow-colored or black. Votes: 0

Nobu Matsuhisa

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Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. Votes: 0

Gary Chapman

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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem Votes: 0

Marcel Duchamp

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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio

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I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around. Votes: 0

Etgar Keret

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Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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The essential building block is...the true love that is impossible to define for those who have never experienced it and unnecessary to define for those who have. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening. Votes: 0

Taiye Selasi

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Many a professing Christian is a stumbling-block because his worship is divided. On Sunday he worships God; on weekdays God has little or no place in his thoughts. Votes: 0

Dwight L. Moody

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In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens. Votes: 0

Melanie Griffith

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Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. Votes: 0

Katy Perry

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I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins. Votes: 0

E. L. James

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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail. Votes: 0

Melina Marchetta

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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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To people who make moving ads that block the view of websites: Not only will we not buy from you, but we want shrews to eat your liver. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews. Votes: 0

Bette Midler

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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites. Votes: 0

Christopher Dodd

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Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box. Votes: 0

Country Joe McDonald

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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers. Votes: 0

Rollo May

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Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport. Votes: 0

Charlie Brenneman

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Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block. Votes: 0

Laozi

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A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball. Votes: 0

Pete Rose

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Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power... Votes: 0

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

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If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it. Votes: 0

Paul Keating

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To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block. Votes: 0

Steve Pavlina

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Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over. Votes: 0

Robert Guillaume

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I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life. Votes: 0

Lleyton Hewitt

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Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take. Votes: 0

Craig Gillespie

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Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom. Votes: 0

Stephen Levine

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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. Votes: 0

Daniel Boulud

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In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him Votes: 0

Charles Buxton

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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society. Votes: 0

Jim Ryun

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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped. Votes: 0

Thom Yorke

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Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down. Votes: 0

Bryan Appleyard

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I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects. Votes: 0

DJ Shadow

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Truly worthy are those who become brighter as the days get cloudier so that their light shines through, regardless of how hard the clouds are working to block their radiance. Votes: 0

Pooja Ruprell

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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises. Votes: 0

Elliott Abrams

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The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have. Votes: 0

Aly Raisman

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I know it's hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you. Votes: 0

Colleen Hoover

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The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do. Votes: 0

Dwight Yoakam

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The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure. Votes: 0

Lights

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[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know. Votes: 0

Judd Nelson

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Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day. Votes: 0

Emily Barton

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At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful. Votes: 0

Karen Russell

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As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process. Votes: 0

Margaret Carlson

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There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block. Votes: 0

R. L. Stine

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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block. Votes: 0

Martin Amis

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The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control? Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic. Votes: 0

Peter Capaldi

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You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening. Votes: 0

Bailee Madison

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Hereâs the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if youâre afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls. Votes: 0

Kami Garcia

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If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals. Votes: 0

Pico Iyer

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View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome. Votes: 0

Elana Meyers

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On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way. Votes: 0

Cary Fukunaga

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The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control? Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals. Votes: 0

Nerlens Noel

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We had a great rally right next to Phoenix, and it was an amazing, 21,000 people. But the protesters block the road. So you had thousands of people that couldn't get in. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead. Votes: 0

Bret Michaels

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[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories. Votes: 0

Silver RavenWolf

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My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block. Votes: 0

Alan Davies

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The goal isn't, and shouldn't be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party. Votes: 0

Alex Pareene

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Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path. Votes: 0

Dick Thornburgh

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It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform. Votes: 0

David Malpass

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I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block. Votes: 0

Joanne Woodward

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I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career. Votes: 0

J. G. Ballard

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San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. Votes: 0

William Saroyan

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If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything. Votes: 0

Ezra Miller

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If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact. Votes: 0

Bonnie Bassler

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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block. Votes: 0

Irving Stone

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Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that? Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward. Votes: 0

Yvonne Pierre

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Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family. Votes: 0

Pat Buchanan

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Small people will find your flaw and make it huge; big people will find your flaw and block it out completely, by sitting next to you. Therefore, hang out with big people.:) Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time. Votes: 0

Hank Williams, Jr.

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That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Woodson

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An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? Votes: 0

George Orwell

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I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do. Votes: 0

LaToya Jackson

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Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. Votes: 0

Ãlvaro Mutis

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Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. Votes: 0

Álvaro Mutis

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I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park. Votes: 0

Jolene Blalock

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When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe. Votes: 0

Derren Brown

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Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution. Votes: 0

Ted Harts

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There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged. Votes: 0

Frederick Lenz

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I'm very boring, really: I live on the Upper East Side, a block from the park. I have three kids. I go for a jog around the park every day with my dog. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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I never get writer's block. My secret...I have purring cats in surround sound while I write...best white noise on the planet." R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block. Votes: 0

R. Rose

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We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal. Votes: 0

Judd Nelson

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I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has. Votes: 0

Lupe Fiasco

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Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block. Votes: 0

Debbie Allen

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Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time. Votes: 0

Timothy Long

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If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go. Votes: 0

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society. Votes: 0

Henry Lawson

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I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner. Votes: 0

Andrew Young

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I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me. Votes: 0

Francis Chan

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I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright. Votes: 0

Ray Davies

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God is always on time. Rejoice in the Lord! Your blessing is on the way. Don't fear the enemy who desires to stop it. No one can block what God has for you. Claim It, Votes: 0

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it. Votes: 0

Joey Harrington

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I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift. Votes: 0

Tony Gaskins

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I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it. Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope. Votes: 0

Elton John

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