Beats Quotes

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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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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  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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• 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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• I'm more into beats than rhymes.

  David Gallagher

  Neptune, Rhyme

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Time, Half

  "Clean Your House & Everything In It". Book by Eugenia Chapman and Jill C. Major, p. 100, 1982.

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• Nothing beats a great smile.

  Karl Urban

  Smile

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

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• March to the beat of your own drummer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Healing, Teens, Overcoming Adversity

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

  Jason Dohring

  Kids, Careers, Long

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• One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

  George Eads

  Want, Stuff, Kind

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• Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

  Georges Rouault

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Soliloques" by Georges Rouault, 1944.

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• That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Alternatives, Proud

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• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Echoes, Listening, Tape

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• America can't beat anyone anymore.

  George Clooney

  America

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• I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.

  Jermaine Dupri

  People, Watches, Records

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• I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

  Gil Gerard

  Saying Too Much, Want, Superstitions

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• A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

  Kid Koala

  Rap, Years, Interesting

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• I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

  Obie Trice

  Writing, Studios

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

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• I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.

  Rebecca Loos

  Heart, Phones, News

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• Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

  Georges Rouault

  Heart, Light, Grace

  Georges Rouault, Ileana Marcoulesco, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (1996). “Georges Rouault: the inner light”, Menil Foundation

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• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Bed

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

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• Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

  Duane G. Carey

  Space, Suits, Folks

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• To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

  Ric Flair

  Men, He Man, Be A Man

  Ric Flair (2010). “Ric Flair: To Be the Man”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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