Barbara Block Quotes
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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You want your coach's blessing.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Midi is my hobby.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.
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Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
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Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
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I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
