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I would run through brick walls for Spurs. -- Graham Roberts
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard. -- Dick Dale
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. -- Randy Pausch
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. -- Tracey Ullman
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. -- Jennifer Aniston
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. -- Gary Coleman
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious. -- Mitch Hedberg
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! -- Randy Pausch
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. -- Darren Shan
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. -- Randy Pausch
You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good. -- Swami Vivekananda
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. -- George Lucas
Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible. -- Li Cunxin
One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work. -- James Redfield
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. -- Tony Lema
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. -- David Suzuki
I must have been very young, but I have a clear memory of drawing on a cream brick wall... with wax crayons. -- Robert Ingpen
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. -- Hattie Morahan
As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. -- Melanie Mayron
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. -- John Bonham
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! -- Randy Bachman
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space. -- Charles Stross
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. -- Elizabeth McCracken
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. -- Richard Branson
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall. -- Gail Collins
The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. -- Rupert Everett
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. -- Neil Gaiman
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want -- Randy Pausch
A brick could be used as a doorstop. But why bother? To promote an open-door policy, I had all the walls knocked down. -- Jarod Kintz
Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication. -- Randy Pausch
Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it. -- Randy Pausch

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