Beats Quotes - Page 33

• Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Blue, Jeans, People

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• London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

  David Byrne

  London, Minutes, Tempo

  "In David Byrne, Meltdown 2015 has found more than a talking head" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2015.

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Swimming, Work Out

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• I like the atmosphere. You can't beat it when you're introduced. I like making a play and hearing the fans scream. I like the physical as well as the emotional aspect, especially when you win.

  Jeff Bryant

  Winning, Emotional, Play

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• I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap

  Ronda Rousey

  Naps, Alexis

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• I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

  Stephan Bonnar

  Retirement, Fighting, Mma

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• With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.

  Dara Wier

  Important, Titles, World

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• I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

  Herbert Lom

  Stones, Courses

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

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• In 15 years or something - I like the idea of just one paparazzo coming out and trying to get a picture, and I just beat the shit out of him. I mean - out of nowhere - when my picture's not even worth...and I've spent all my money, so you can't sue me!

  Robert Pattinson

  Mean, Years, Ideas

  "Robert Pattinson: Boy Wonder". Interview with George Gurley, www.elle.com. April 7, 2011.

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• God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

  Tyler Perry

  Giving, Stay Focused, Lanes

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• My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

  James Denton

  Jobs, Real, Air

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

  Ben Stein

  Long, Trying, Warren Buffet

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• Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

  Casey Kasem

  Song, Messages, Used

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• Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

  Pharrell Williams

  Genius, Care, Dinner

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

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• Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, World, Chess

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• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Honesty, Men, Down And

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• England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

  Joey Barton

  Football, Stupid, Book

  "Barton: fans are vicious, misled and shocking" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2007.

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• I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.

  Benny Goodman

  Memorable, Kids, Fighting

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• But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

  Roger McGuinn

  Song, People, Imagination

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• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, House, Way

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• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  Ted Lindsay

  Player, Ideas, Tangled

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• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  G. H. Hardy

  Passion, Science, Boys

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Dog, Prayer

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

  Blaine Wilson

  Inspirational, Practice, One Day

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