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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.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Believe

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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.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Self, People

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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.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Want, Kind

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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.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Change, Business, Risk

  Thomas J. Watson (1963). “A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.”

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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

  Sarah McLachlan

  Writing, Writer's Block

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

  Jerry Stiller

  Years, Trails, Walking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ron Livingston

  Moving, Littles, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Robert Guillaume

  Believe, America, Racism

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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.

  Frederik Pohl

  Morning, Typewriters, Years

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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

  Writing, Ideas, Problem

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

  Francis Parkman

  Two, House, Facts

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.14, VM eBooks

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Stupid, Humor, Ignorance

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Ignorance, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Memorial Day, Inspiration

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• I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wall, Roots, Tree

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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

  John Calvin

  Confidence, Christian Inspirational, Spirit

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David Wishart Torrance, A. W. Morrison (1996). “A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Life

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Couple, Plot, Sides

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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?

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Fire, Doors

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Artist, Isolation

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

  Michelangelo

  Art, Inspiration, Practice

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Humorous

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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.

  R. L. Stine

  Cheating, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

  Damon Wayans

  Dad, Father, Guy

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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.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Play, Shots

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