Beats Quotes - Page 31

• Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Sound

  "Tinselworm". World Tour, 2008.

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• His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman.' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical.

  Manny Laureano

  Beautiful, Pain, Red Lipstick

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• It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

  Eddie O'Sullivan

  Team, Fire, Hair

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• Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.

  Naomi Judd

  Love, Wise, Book

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• But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

  Carson McCullers

  Atheist, Heart, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Fighting

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• Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wall, Truth, Men

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

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• If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, War, Jam

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• If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighter, Prime

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• I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Doe, Punching

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• We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Garden, Squares

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• We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fashion, Couple, War

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• We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

  Evan Wright

  Military, America, Pits

  Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.22, Penguin

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Athlete, Years

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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

  Fun, Fear, Heaven

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• If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

  Toni Morrison

  Learning, Cheat, Adolescence

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Boxing, Champion

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• There is one thing that I feel I still have to do and that is gain revenge over Lennox Lewis. If Lewis came back I would find the motivation to return to boxing and beat him.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Revenge, Boxing

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• This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any excuses. No judges, no referees, no nothing. May the best man win.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Voice, People, Listening

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• They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Wall, Afterlife, Six

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• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  Apolo Ohno

  Tired, Racing, Want

  "Speed skater Apolo Ohno". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.

  Roger Federer

  Believe, Enough, Stills

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