Block Quotes
1192 quotes by 1012 authors
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Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.
— Jack Welch
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You can be fun and sexy and still care about issues. I'm excited that people are starting to listen to what I have to say.…
— Kesha
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I've always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long…
— Gabriela Mistral
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Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what…
— Anne Rice
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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block
— Jeffery Deaver
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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.
— Sarah Palin
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I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy…
— Johan Bruyneel
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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…
— Carl Lewis
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Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
— Antoni Tapies
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
— Francis Parkman
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Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It…
— Neal Boortz
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A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and…
— Bill Bonner
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Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Today is the blocks with which we build.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health. ...We can't lie…
— Michelle Obama
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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…
— Christopher Dodd
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There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but…
— Thierry Henry
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