Beats Quotes - Page 10

• I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

  Brendan Rodgers

  Winning, Games, Trying

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• In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.

  Dewey Redman

  Play, Technique, Sound

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• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

  Richard Adams

  Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

  Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

  Dorothea Lange

  Ocean, Artist, Shore

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

  Jack Kerouac

  Generations, Playboy, Beat Generation

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• Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.

  Reginald Arkell

  Sister, Brother, War

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• The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
  birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
  twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
  out of them.

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Spring, College

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Couple, Moving

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• Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

  Landon Donovan

  Mexico, Scenarios

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• I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge.

  Landon Donovan

  Challenges, World, Regions

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• That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.

  Marat Safin

  Years, Play, Three

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• My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

  Thom Yorke

  Father, Inspiration, Nine

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• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

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• I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Winning, Years

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• Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

  Joe Frazier

  Champion, Heavyweights, Doubt

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• I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Believe, Russia, People

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• Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Children, Decision, Meat

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• It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Morning, Should, Reviews

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.187, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'

  John Cage

  Wall, Writing, Feelings

  Observer magazine Interview, 1982.

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• When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

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• But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Nature, Strong, Heart

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• Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Games, Political, Police

  Misalliance (1914) p. 85

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• Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Heart, Self

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• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Stress, Struggle

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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