Beats Quotes - Page 4

• I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

  Johnny Depp

  Roles, Abnormal, Problem

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• A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

  Sonny Liston

  Cowboy, People, Boxing

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• My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Golf, Hard Times

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

  Flavor Flav

  Player, Men, Games

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• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets

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• It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Old Habits, Bones, Theologian

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2025, Library of Alexandria

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Different Nationalities, People, Generations

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• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

  John Major

  Patience, Running, Games

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher: And Other Tory Legends". Book by Richard Benson, 2010.

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• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Funny, Education, Learning

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humor, Dining Alone

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

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• Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Success, Men

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• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Iron, Grace

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• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  Larry Niven

  Paper, Expensive

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• Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

  Michael Lewis

  Book, Writing, Affection

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Heart, Bed Sheets, Hot

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• Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Squash

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• Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

  Chad Smith

  Hands, Feet, Important

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  Dan Gable

  School, Wrestling, People

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• Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme

  Jason Behr

  Krispy Kreme, Originals

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  Barry Bonds

  Squash, Ties, Matter

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

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