Beats Quotes - Page 20

• The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Life, Morning, Artist

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• Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Differences, Years

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• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  Trevor Horn

  Dad, Rocks, People

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Winning, Thinking

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• What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

  Tom Shadyac

  What Matters, Who We Are, Matter

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• I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

  Jackson Pearce

  Love, Heart, Two

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats

  Anamika Mishra

  Heart, Love Is, Dimples

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• Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

  Jon Foreman

  Heart, Sunset, Phones

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• If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Competition, Reputation, Honest

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• My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Prayer, Heart, Longing

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• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world's shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Life And Death, Gone, World

  "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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• Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the whole 20 years, I never wrote in this connection, 'Burn Jewish houses down; beat them to death.' Never once did such an incitement appear in Der Stuermer.

  Julius Streicher

  Years, House, Connections

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• Teenage dreams so hard to beat

  John Peel

  Dream, Teenage, Hard

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• Sun and wind and beat of sea,
  Great lands stretching endlessly...
  Where be bonds to bind the free?
  All the world was made for me!

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Travel, Wind, Sea

  Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”

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• A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

  Patricia Lee Gauch

  Heart, Reader

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• Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Giving, Tough Times, Down And

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• The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady rate and don't stop...reminds me of life itself. In that sense my music is like certain popular music where the rhythm drives from beginning to end.

  Michael Torke

  Heart, Ideas, Ends

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• As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Sound, Traditional

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• What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

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• If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.

  Penelope Douglas

  Long, Steel, Enough

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• If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Trying, Ability

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• The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground; Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead.

  Theodore O'Hara

  Tattoo, Loss, Brave

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• The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Talking, Sweat, Dancing

  Gabrielle Roth Roth (2014). “Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom”, p.45, BookBaby

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