Beat Quotes

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

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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.

I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.

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.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

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.

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.