Barbara Block Quotes
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
-
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
-
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
-
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!
-
You want your coach's blessing.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
-
Midi is my hobby.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
-
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
-
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.
-
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
-
I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
-
I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.
-
Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
-
You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
-
Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.
-
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
