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• I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mind, Age, Feels

  "Spielberg & Lucas: The EW Q&A". Interview with Steve Daly, ew.com. April 18, 2008.

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• Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

  Deborah King

  Meditation, Energy, Giants

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• Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

  Mark Kozelek

  Block, Writing, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.

  Martin Schulz

  Retirement, Real, Crazy

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• I hesitate to say yes - I had writer's block, because I know there are people who've had really serious cases of it, and I've never been paralyzed like that, but I definitely get blocked sometimes. More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

  Jonathan Dee

  Block, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results of their decisions does not let us understand the process that they used to make the choice in the first place. A good analogy is sports. If you wanted to know how well a person plays basketball, for example, you could look at statistics like shooting percentage or blocked shots. But, this is just an historical account of how well the individual played in the past - the numbers do not tell us much about how that individual plays basketball now.

  Justin Menkes

  Basketball, Sports, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.

  Ned Beauman

  Trying, Kind, Enough

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  Dean Baquet

  Healthy, Growth, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit.

  Brad Goreski

  Color, Jeans, Perfect

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• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Men

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• The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Cities, Kabul, Lines

  Source: progressive.org

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• To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Impossible Things, Creative

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Children, Want, Spirit

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

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• But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked
  About by body: there's in things a void-
  Which to have known will serve thee many a turn,
  Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt,
  Forever searching in the sum of all,
  And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.

  Lucretius

  Forever, Doubt, Body

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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• I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Hate, Ocean, Australia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

  Vince Lombardi

  Games, World, Plans

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• If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

  Neil T Anderson

  Want Something, Goal, Done

  Neil T. Anderson (2000). “Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ”, p.131, Gospel Light Publications

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• Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Energy, Explosions

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• When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Mind, Sitting Down

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• When [Bill] Clinton came along, it sort of moderated a little bit, but Clinton had a different device for breaking unions called NAFTA [North America Free Trade Agreement]. Because the government was entirely lawless, employers could exploit NAFTA to threaten union organizers with transfer. It's illegal, but when you've got a lawless government, it doesn't matter if it's illegal. I think the number of union drives blocked increased by about 50 percent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.iww.org

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• [Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move.

  John Carlos

  Sports, Wise, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Luckily my fans are so lovely and I haven't really had to - what's the phrase? - "Clap back at the trolls?" Every now and then I do get a troll that mentions my skin color and calls me ugly names, though, like "Dark Monkey." Most of the time those people have their pages blocked, or you can't even see their profile picture. I can't focus on that. What I've realized is that I have the power to control how I feel about what they say.

  Danielle Brooks

  Dark, People, Focus

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Blame, Great Depression

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• There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

  Emma Stone

  Wall, Fall, Overthinking

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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