Block Quotes - Page 29

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, Games

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Community, Towers

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Running, Book, Ties

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

  Danica McKellar

  Perseverance, Teacher, School

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, White

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• I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

  Wentworth Miller

  Sleep, Weekend, Dvds

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• I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

  Aimee Mullins

  Running, Stress, Breathing

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Gun, Cameras, Gelatin

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• I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Growth, Economy, Prime

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• I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

  Rachel Nichols

  Followers, Inappropriate, Young

  "Rachel Nichols Talks ALEX CROSS, How She Got Involved, Playing Strong Women, Fight Training with Her Co-Stars and Matthew Fox’s Transformation". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

  Keith O'Brien

  Sex, School, Law

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• When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Real, Listening

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• I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

  Susan Orlean

  Spring, Garden, Sight

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

  Mehmet Oz

  Sleep, Night, Long

  "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Selfish, Real

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• At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

  Katy Perry

  Artist, Female, Labels

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• And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

  Michael Phelps

  Stars, Home, Airplane

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• Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

  John Piper

  Sex, Kitchen, Woe

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Snow, Presidential

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• I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

  Alan Rickman

  Girlfriend, Morning, Scent

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• The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Home, School, Circles

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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• It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Broken, Romance

  "Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  Ja Rule

  Blessing, Flow, Bitterness

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• I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

  Paul Ryan

  Kind, Grew Up, Baptized

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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