Beats Quotes - Page 32

• You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Animal, Monkeys, Hell

  Song: Real Man, Album: Human Touch, 1992

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• I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

  Evander Holyfield

  Boxing, Decision, Ears

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

  Richard Ford

  Rights, America, People

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• I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Literature, Extras

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• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  Jack Gilbert

  Successful, Thinking, Enough

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• Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

  Philip Roth

  Believe, Knowledge, Knowing

  Philip Roth (2013). “Zuckerman Unbound”, p.165, Macmillan

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Signatures, Sound

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  War, Quiet, Now And Then

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• Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

  Carl Lewis

  Kids, Track, Want

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• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

  Greil Marcus

  Music, Song, Mean

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

  Shalom Harlow

  Hands, Feet, Brain

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• If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

  Lucy Stone

  Husband, Drunk, Dollars

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

  Serena Williams

  Sound, Just Saying, Wells

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• I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Thinking, People, Arguing

  "OSCARS Q&A: Matthew McConaughey". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

  Christina Aguilera

  Media, Happens

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• There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Girl, Hurt, Thinking

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• My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!

  Nicole Beharie

  Mom, Boots, Georgia

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• The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

  Shane Black

  Differentiation, Action, Quiet

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• I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

  Dave Brubeck

  Tired, Piano, Energy

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• I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Morning, Nice, Bed

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• It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

  John Bercow

  Use, Form, Cowardly

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• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Mean, Wings

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• I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

  Simon Baker

  Believe, Hard Work, Kids

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

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• We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.

  Traian Basescu

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Romania demands equality - Europe - International Herald Tribune" by Nicholas Wood, www.nytimes.com. August 29, 2006.

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• If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Running, Sleep, Track

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