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- Nov 07, 2020
Blocks Quotes
Every structure starts with something small stacked on something solid.
Blocks turn up here in a genuinely hands-on sense, from childhood tinkering with basic building pieces that sparked a lifelong interest in how things work, to the unglamorous team effort of clearing a path for a teammate on the field.
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- Greatest Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm focusing on being the best I can for my teammates - catching as many balls and putting in as many good blocks as I possibly can.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020