Beats Quotes - Page 8

• Roll the weed up
  Somebody turn the beat up
  While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up
  Mac game so cold make yo nose runny
  Mac game so cold takin' hoes money

  Mac Dre

  Weed, Games, Feet

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• All I need is one mic
  One beat, one stage
  One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page
  Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib
  One god to show me how to do things his son did.

  Nas

  Girl, Son, Gun

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• I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.

  Petra Kvitova

  Play, Today, Moments

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• The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.

  John Vance Cheney

  Happiness, Sweet, Heart

  Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Swings

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

  Betty Liu

  Business, Data, Needs

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• As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Anchors, Bassists

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• Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

  Michael Connelly

  Music, Heart, Momentum

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.2660, Hachette UK

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• Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

  Margaret Atwood

  Music, Squares, Romance

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Way, Comedy

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• There's no one alive I can't beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Alive, Chess, I Can

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• They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Player, Men

  "Portrait of a genius as a young chess master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Levels, Transformation

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• When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Fighting, Successful

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

  Howard Cosell

  Goodbye, Thinking, Boxing

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• He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him.

  Angelo Dundee

  Boxing, Way, Found

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• Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.

  Joe Louis

  Men, Boxing, Figures

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• Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Thinking, Boxing

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• When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.

  Richard Dennis

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• I was known as a Yankee killer. My best year against them was 1953. I beat them five times and shut them out four times. You just played a little harder against them.

  Mel Parnell

  Yankees, Years, Best Year

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• It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.

  Sylvia Hatchell

  Team, Kids, Giving

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• A troubled life beats having no life at all

  Richard M. Cohen

  Disability

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• Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

  Bob Hope

  Home, Holiday, May

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

  Taylor Swift

  Trying, Done

  "The Taylor Swift quotebook" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2012.

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