Beats Quotes

• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

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• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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  Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes.

  David Gallagher

  Neptune, Rhyme

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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  A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Motivational Sports, Humorous

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• Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

  Margery Allingham

  Sex, Heart, Ecstasy

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• A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

  Ken Burns

  Jazz, Rhythm

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• Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

  Chubby Checker

  Dancing, Legacy

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• So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

  Warren Jeffs

  Race, Rocks, Black

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• I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

  David Gallagher

  Girl, Weekend, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Opposites, Culture, Today

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• But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

  Casey Kasem

  Messages, Music Is

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• The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

  Erica Jong

  Doe, Needs, Slave

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.258, Penguin

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• Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Drinking, Zombie, Bartending

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• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  Fairuza Balk

  Texas, Color

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• I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

  Tom Cruise

  Winning, Thinking, People

  "Tom's last stand" by Phelim O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

  Elijah Wood

  Heart, Cutting, Hands

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• Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

  Sid Waddell

  Heart, Stones, Darts

  "A shocking sight at the theatre" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2006.

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• The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

  George A. Romero

  Blood, Realistic, The Waterfront

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• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  Walter Bagehot

  Military, War, Impact

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.75

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• As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

  Compay Segundo

  Heart, Long, Heart Beat

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• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

  Henry Chester

  Inspirational, Enthusiasm For Life, World

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• Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

  Kyle Chandler

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Hurt

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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