Beats Quotes - Page 34

• You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Eye, Rejection

  Song: Different Drum

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• Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

  Lukas Foss

  Wall, Block, Artist

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.

  Paul Feig

  Mom, Kids, School

  "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

  Paul Feig

  Voice, Talking, Laughing

  "Director Paul Feig Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 5, 2012.

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• Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

  Dave Haywood

  Son, Artist, Records

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• I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

  Ed McBain

  Character, Roots, Balance

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• A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

  Sonia Johnson

  Strong, Trouble, Said

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• The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

  David Johansen

  Latin, Mind, Firsts

  Interview with Michaelangelo Matos, www.avclub.com. June 1, 2009.

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• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, People, Retiring

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

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• L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

  Michael B. Jordan

  New York, Thinking, Weather

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song, Writing, Should

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• You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

  Eminem

  Revenge, Beef, Ass

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• Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

  Dobie Gray

  Boys, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Scream, Theory

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• When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Art, Dad, Teenager

  "MH Grill: Dolph Lundgren". Interview with Brittany Kennedy, www.menshealth.co.uk. February 19, 2013.

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• It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

  Stella McCartney

  Country, London, Realistic

  "Lunch with Mariella: Stella McCartney" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

  Jimmy Nail

  Thinking, Accepting, Easier

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• Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Black, Mourn, Chests

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• I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

  Nick Offerman

  House, Cooking, Pork

  "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wife, House, Meat

  Song: Get Your Gunn

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• I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.

  Frank Zappa

  Love You, Violence, Violence Against Women

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• You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please.

  Elton John

  Believe, Violence, Please

  Song: Don't Trust That Woman Cher Lady Choc Ice, Album: Leather Jackets, 1986

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• The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Reading, World, Pulse

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• I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo Goes Toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise" by Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

  Scott Pelley

  Wall, Wanted

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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