Beat Quotes
2656 Beat quotes by 1824 unique authors
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There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like…
— Nick Cave
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
— Kyle Chandler
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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
— Margaret Cho
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
— Tom Clancy
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I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another…
— John Cleese
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We're picking on people we can beat.
— George Clooney
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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
— Ty Cobb
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If…
— Jean Cocteau
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If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really…
— Michael P. Anderson
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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
— Maya Angelou
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I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
— Tupac Shakur
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But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come…
— Tupac Shakur
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I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my…
— Kanye West
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Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on…
— Patty Sheehan
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The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still…
— Unknown Author
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Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.
— Chuck Dressen
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
— Richard Dawkins
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They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You…
— George Carlin
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Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but…
— Edmund Hillary
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Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and…
— Chester Himes
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Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it…
— David Walker
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