Block Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Diego Corrales

  Games, Would Be, Lines

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• 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.

  Julian Assange

  Army, Independence, Essentials

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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

  Brian Greene

  Space, Details, Fabric

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.18, Random House

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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.

  Karen Russell

  Beautiful, Names, Miami

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• 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.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Criminals, Nests, Littles

  Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.95, Schocken

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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.

  Lil' Mama

  Party, Eras, Just Being

  "Lil Mama Defends Nicki Minaj Comments, Breaks Down Crying On Air", www.mtv.com. July 20, 2011.

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• 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.

  Richard Carmona

  Morning, Sunday, Grandmother

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

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Civilization, Building, Redefining

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• 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.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Opening Up, Space, Law

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

  Jostein Gaarder

  Eternal

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• 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.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Player, Tennis

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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.

  Janine Benyus

  Thinking, Poison, Shells

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

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Spices, Heat, Building

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Trying, Narrative

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• 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.

  John Burdett

  Writing, Enemy, Novelists

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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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Elephants, Looks, Fool Proof

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• Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.

  Alexandra Potter

  Missing Someone, Loss, Background Noise

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• The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.

  Brunonia Barry

  Grief, Healing, Perfect

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• The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

  Aesop Rock

  Magic, Gutters, Manipulate

  Song: Nickel Plated Pockets, Album: Daylight, 2002

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• Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Giving, May, Definitions

  Source: rzim.org

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• When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!

  John Fogerty

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Military, Father, School

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

  Marc Webb

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Believe, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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