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• Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different in its states as well, so I never really think of things in big blocks, in terms of other artists.

  Patrick Wolf

  Artist, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Ghetto, Cities

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Thinking, Fool

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Mean

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: "I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System". Interview with Simone Chun, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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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.

  Amishi Jha

  Memories, Trying, Information

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

  Tyler Perry

  Beautiful, School, Ghetto

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

  Carl Andre

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

  Carl Andre

  Space, Pieces, Shapes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Carl Andre

  Sculpture, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.

  Norm Phelps

  Karma, Buddhist, Compassion

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• We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Spiritual, Practice, Forgiving

  Charles L. Whitfield (2010). “Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)”, p.139, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.

  Susan Lyne

  Smart, Creativity

  "10 Smart Quotes From 'Innovation Uncensored' Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days, adds something to the invisible building.

  J.R. Miller

  Life, Book, Years

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• Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.

  Chuck Wendig

  Baby, Jesus, Mean

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• Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Numbers, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Stressing and obsessing over your vision blocks it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Over You, Vision

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of voters has repudiated the Democratic and Republican parties? Why are they still in charge?

  Jill Stein

  Party, Voters, Republican

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

  Kehinde Wiley

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Letting Go, Race, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't have to wait another week. People binge watch. It's interesting.

  Tim Roth

  People, Interesting, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• If you've ever sang in falsetto, you know that your throat is between your voice and your mouth. In a standard voice, you sing from your belly. And when you sing in a falsetto, you're blocking that. It gives it a filter. It gives it a character. It's less revealing.

  Cass McCombs

  Character, Voice, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Numbers, Events

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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!

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Irony, Psychological, Syndromes

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

  Tim Wu

  Thinking, Victory, Level Playing Field

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Cancer, Exercise

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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