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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."
It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.
The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
If you have a MacBook Pro, there is no option to block people. Believe me: I hunted for this blocking option.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
First year in the league, I tried to block everything. And I'd foul out. I averaged the most fouls per minute.
I can do it all, and I want to do it all. Put me on special teams. Ask me to block. Hand off. Catching passes.
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block.
So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.
If you look at the trends, China very well could be the driver of the adoption of block chain consumer services.
I can rebound, block shots, push the ball - basically, anything you need from a guard. Off the court, I'm humble.
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.
I shoot all kinds of shots. I just don't stay on the block and do layups and dunks when I'm in the gym by myself.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.
Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
My main focus, my pride is right there on the block. That's where I've always played and my focus has always been.
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.