Beats Quotes - Page 17

• When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

  Don Epperson

  Silly, Men, Games

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• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Feelings

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• If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

  Joey Jordison

  Baseball, Silly, Giving

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• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Guy, Generations

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• Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.

  Marleen S. Barr

  Art, Communication, Cells

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• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Zoos, Guitar, One Day

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• You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

  Randy Travis

  Wish, Mines, Senses

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• You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.

  Deacon Jones

  Baseball, Bats, Bags

  "Deacon Jones Dies at 74; Made Quarterback Sack Brutal and Enthralling" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2013.

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• That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  Rick Riordan

  Iguanas, People, Chinese

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• Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

  Armistead Maupin

  Heart, Hopeless Romantic, Stubborn

  Armistead Maupin (2011). “Tales of the City: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Sell. Don't apologize for it and don't be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you've earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn't pay the rent.

  Thom Gimbel

  Attitude, Pride, Want

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• There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?

  Roger Babson

  Thinking, Why Not, Earth

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• Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

  Anthony Trollope

  Law, Water, Stones

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• I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids

  Drew Brees

  Tired, Kids, Talking

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• My father lead by fear.  I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat.  His voice rang so vividly in my head.  That it was just…a fear.

  Nelly

  Father, Voice, Causes

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• I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.

  Jose Canseco

  Hero, Thinking, Roles

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• The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

  W. G. Sebald

  Years, Crow, Quality

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• If you can't join them, beat them.

  Mort Sahl

  Ifs

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• I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

  Pat Dye

  Alabama, Georgia, Know How

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  Simon Sinek

  Running, Race, Sight

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.224, Penguin

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• We have to try to beat Everyone.

  Alex Ferguson

  Trying

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

  Gwen Stefani

  Fun, Stage, Ifs

  "Gwen Stefani: Inside Her World By Her Best Friend". Interview with Shirley Manson for Elle Magazine, March 2011.

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• I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

  Kelly Ripa

  Heart, Thinking, Trying

  "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.

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• My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

  Marco Polo

  Heart, Breathe, Polo

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