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• The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Player, Hands

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. June 3, 2004.

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• I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Revenge, Attitude, Ice

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

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• My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Revenge, Half, Retribution

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• There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

  Ray Davies

  Night, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

  Solange Knowles

  Dream, Father, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

  Tea Obreht

  Writing, Brain, Plot

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• We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Decision, Cyprus, Favors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

  Eckhard Pfeiffer

  Views, People, Different

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• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  Oscar Pistorius

  People, Giving, Training

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• With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

  James Rollins

  Book, Years, Two

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• Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

  Ali Smith

  Exercise, Growing Stronger, Want

  "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Building, Manners, Civil Society

  Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor

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• People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Trying, Pure

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• There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Enlightenment, World

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• There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.

  Frederick Lenz

  Progress, Study, Discouraged

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• My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.

  Thomas Mallon

  Writing, Ambition, Talking

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• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Moving, Book, Character

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• I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

  Elliott Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Naps

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• The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Insane

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• An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.

  Frederick Lenz

  Party, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Strong, Health

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• In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

  Stuart Dybek

  Writing, Clay, Potters

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Voice, Iphone, Tea

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Successful, Men, Trying

  "Prison, revolution and reconciliation". Interview with Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

  Amy Waldman

  Taken, Artist, House

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