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“USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.”

Men Looks Nations Media Information Produce Genius Weapons News Nuclear Block Usa Nuclear Weapons Electric Sophisticated Cages Handful Cables Censure Pentagon Nbc General Electric Nbc News

Author:Gore Vidal

“If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.”

Ifs World Looks Two War Seems Huge Block France Winner War Of The Worlds Another World Wikipedia World War Two World War One No Winners

Author:Lance Armstrong

“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.”

Problem Motivational Success Life Is Opportunity Games Football Block Score Motivational Sports Best Football Inspiring Football

Book:Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury

Source: Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury

“Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.”

Sometimes Progress Block Prudence

Book:Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

Source: Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs

“From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.”

May Able Views Media Point Of View Access Block Magazines Consumers Combination Competitors Time Magazine

Author:Charlene Li

“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.”

War Able Force Block Ministers Camps Adoption Disapproval

Author:Sadao Araki

“Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that's physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.”

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.”

People Walks One Day Cancer Stuck Block Parks Breasts Breast Cancer Central Park Mastectomy

Author:Hoda Kotb

“Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. Its safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.”

Found Team Design Daughter Harder Sticks Block Obsessed Colour Subtle My Daughter Print Tricky Stella

Author:Twiggy

“When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you...I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'”

People Thinking Knows Needs Reason Reality Block Reason Why Bullied

Author:Katerina Graham

“In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.”

Years Wells Kids School Study High School Theatre Block Freshman Freshman Year Freshman Year In High School

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.”

People War Enough Eye Spirit Stars Rounds Ill Opening Block Only Time Sausage Bakers Queues Glasgow War Movie Star Wars Movie

Author:Darren Boyd

“I remember hating New Kids on the Block from the sidelines because all of the girls loved them. They would just fawn over them. Oh my gosh, Joey I love you! When I was younger, I really couldnt stand them.”

Kids Remember Hate Girl Love You Block Sidelines Oh My Gosh Joey Fawns

Author:Dule Hill

“I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.”

Feels Has Beens Real Actors New York Grew Grew Up Hollywood Absolutes Honestly Block Thrill

Author:Richard Schiff

“The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. Its such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes.”

Needs Feelings Culture Five Impossible Streets New York Walking Incredibles Block Replicate Radius

Author:Max Schneider

“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.”

Film Records Block

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.”

World Feels Seems Purpose Acting Majority Missions Block Performing Dry Appropriate Goods Sole Animated

Author:Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

“It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.”

Men Looks Important Humor Young Political Life Is Quality Shots Men And Women Block Young Man Quality Of Life Political Humor Nebraska

Author:George W. Bush

“Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern.”

Feels Two Modern Color Block Shade

Author:Brad Goreski

“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.”

People Ends Criticism Block The End Of The Day Personal Life

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.”

Projects Block Multiple Writer's Block

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“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.”

Thinking Knows Littles Stills Be Good Block Optimistic Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Joey Harrington

“I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.”

People Helping Roles Proud Gay Prejudice Bills Clinton Conviction Block Visible Transgender Bisexual Impeachment

Author:Barney Frank

“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.”

Ends Play Used Games Winning Week Team Block League Champion Attacking Premier League Champions League

Author:Gareth Bale

“Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”

People Believe Courses I Believe Wish Differences Effort Building Architecture Block Making A Difference Museums Ambitious Imaginative Gallery Building Blocks

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”

“Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much”

May Goal Talent Strive Starting Block Faster

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.”

Thinking Writing Process Havens Block Writer's Block Flailing Good Moments

Author:Jennifer Egan

“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.”

“This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”

People Thinking Courses Moral Novel Building Concern Block Manners Intimate Ritual Realising Old Fashioned Abolish Investigating Building Blocks Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.”

Looks Persons Country Speak Language Media Good Things Ghost Block Advertising Berlin Mindless Chatter Foreign Language Foreign Countries Bohemian

Author:Anton Newcombe

“So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.”

Sound Term Study Block Filmmaker Editing Staging

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“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.”

Knows Wells I Can Film Focused Block Stay Focused

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.”

Firsts Stills Would Be Remember Games Lines Hardest Block All Time Mortals Arcades Mortal Kombat

Author:Diego Corrales

“Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.”

States Building Internet Essentials Army Independence Block Organisation Building Blocks Cryptography

Author:Julian Assange

“Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.”

Space Building Property Details Block Fabric Time And Space Building Blocks Entwined

Book:The Elegant Universe

Source: The Elegant Universe

“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.”

Littles Ends Beautiful Used Names Areas Block Miami Grove Coconuts Estuaries

Author:Karen Russell

“There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.”

Littles Millions Quiet Criminals Block Anxious Nests Peace And Quiet

Book:The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Source: The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

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

Party Five Block Eras Just Being

Author:Lil' Mama

“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Morning Know How Grew Grew Up Cooking Block Cooks Meals Grandmother Sunday My Grandmother Refrigerators Harlem Sunday Morning Lard

Author:Richard Carmona

“Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.”

Building Civilization Block Peril Building Blocks Redefining

Author:Hank Hanegraaff

“From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.”

Use Law Space Plans Streets Development Moved South Opening Block Reform Preserves Designer Germany Plastic Continuity Berlin Opening Up Theorists Holland Amsterdam Tenements Perimeter

Author:Kenneth Frampton

“Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.”

Eternal Block

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.”

Knows Done Moments Guy Sports Player Inspire Tough Incredibles Woods Block All Time Tennis Tigers Roger My Boyfriend Tennis Player Federer Mentally Tough

Author:Lindsey Vonn

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

Thinking Building Plant Block Poison Shells Organisms Co2 Building Blocks

Author:Janine Benyus

“Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.”

Building Fishes Block Plenty Heat Dishes Spices Building Blocks Citrus

Author:Yotam Ottolenghi

“My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.”

People Trying Has Beens Said Stills Next Known Block Narrative Uncertainty Anxious Stairs

Author:Merlin Mann

“Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.”

Writing Enough Enemy Security Comfort Complaining Stuck Block Novelists Advise Agonizing

Author:John Burdett

“Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.”

Republican Block California Legislature Hanoi

Book:Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

Source: Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

“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.”

Firsts Looks Huge Fool Method Proof Block Elephants Chips Marble Sculpting Fool Proof

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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