I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they’re also capable of coming out and pressing high.
I just had to block someone on Facebook who was impersonating my wife.
I had writer’s block for almost a year.
The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.
The problem with TV now is that there’s so much competition, that you’re always on the chopping block.
I block shots and stay out the way.
Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of ‘good money.’ As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century’s global economy.
It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, ‘Shoot the ball. We don’t care if it goes in or if you don’t make it. Just shoot it.’
Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
Governments spending billions on a humans-to-Mars program won’t allow wild-eyed billionaires to steal the glory; all heck will break loose as the public and sidelined governments decry and block the perceived cosmic land grab. Yet the private folks aren’t waiting.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
When I was a builder, I drove a blue van. It had a hole in the floor and I couldn’t afford to fix it. I put a concrete block over the hole.
For ice skating, you really have to block out your fears and throw yourself into it – there must be trust in your partner and a trust that you will be safe.
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I’m a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19… and it was devastating.
There’s so many things running through your mind. If you can formulate a game plan that works for you and allows you to block outside distractions and get to what matters, that’s how the talent is able to come out.
We have to be able to execute early in games, whether it’s a block, whether it’s a throw, whether it’s a catch, we have to be able to make plays.
I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.
People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it’s that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they’d make Bible movies from now to the end of time.
I get writer’s block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama’s amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, ‘No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.’
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
You have to bump or throw a block sometimes. Even when it goes wrong, how many times has it worked? I think it’s a matter of picking and choosing your battles. You gotta do what you’ve gotta do to try to get a win.
I don’t think writers should have writer’s block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said, ‘I’ve got bus driver’s block.’ Get over it.
If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don’t engage – just block and say, ‘Well, that’s not very polite.’
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we’re old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can – music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
Maybe I’m the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
In a sense there is no ‘opposition’ in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that’s ok.
OK, I dated Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block, I dated a ‘Baywatch’ boy named David Charvet, and I dated Billy Idol.
It doesn’t matter who’s under the basket, I’m going to try to slam or block the shot.
I’ve been through my highs, I’ve been through my lows; I’ve been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I’ve been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It’s noise I block out automatically. I love my body.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
I try not to hear anything negative about me, and if I do hear it, I try to block it out.
During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
Writer’s block! It doesn’t exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
Those plays are winning plays, getting those blocks. Somebody’s trying to dunk the ball and you get a block and that’s demoralizing for the guy that tried to dunk the basketball.
I was just focused on winning games for the Magic. I was just trying to play at a very high level, just trying to block out all the noise. I had some good games.
I don’t want to change who I am or where I’m from and online I don’t hesitate to delete and flex the block button.
There’s a viewpoint that says, ‘I can fight for minorities, and I can fight for women,’ and if you get that, you make up a vast majority of the voting block, and you win. And white males have been left aside a little bit in the politics of who speaks to them.
I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can’t write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I’m forced to block out. It helps me focus.
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won’t block the shot but I’m going to affect the shot or I’m going to affect the way they think.
Organisms don’t think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read ‘The Midnight Disease’ by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer’s block, and the creative brain. I know what’s wrong with me!
I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It’s not even bi-, it’s multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.
I always thought writer’s block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it’s through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It’s called the block chain.
Lots of times I have to leave the goal to block a ball.
I’m a type of player that tries to do everything a lot to help our team. Setting screens to get guys open, trying to block shots.
I’m probably one of the most competitive people you’ll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I’ll block my 2-year-old’s shot to make it hard on them.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.
For Secret Santa a few years ago, I bought one of the lads I used to play with a block of cheese.
My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It’s not to go out there and block or tackle.
