Barbara Block Quotes

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Barbara Block

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Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Joe Rogan

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Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

Jidenna

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I was studying chemistry, and this is a physically hard job because you are in the laboratory, you work hard, and you come home in the late afternoon or in the evening and you always needed a break.

Joachim Sauer

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At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

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I'm a shareholder in three networks in Holland. That allows me to put ideas that we create in Holland on air in Holland, and if it works, then we distribute the show's format globally.

John de Mol, Jr.

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I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?

John Piper

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No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Tom Scholz

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Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

Mike Huckabee

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It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

Michael Moss

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When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

Jonathan Zittrain

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I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

Denis Leary

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You can't please people who don't really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.

Cherie Blair

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