Nobody’s gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.
One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.
I think there’s something wrong with me – I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we’re playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it’s going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.
And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I’m not looking my best, it’s not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn’t sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I’m a natural-born worrier.
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.
I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – ‘Understand Me.’ I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
Think of it this way: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? Change the tire? Or get out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don’t dwell on it; don’t beat yourself up. That gets you nowhere.
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse – my mother would beat up my father, basically – and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can’t be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.
A friend said to me, ‘Be glad for your troubles – they strengthen you.’ Well, if that’s the truth, I’m going to be so strong they’ll have to beat me to death!
I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it’s me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can’t beat brats.
It’s what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.
I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.
The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.
The cancer doesn’t bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.
Comedy is a very rough beat. It’s no holds barred, as it should be.
One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is ‘Think Twice,’ and I didn’t want to sample it. I’ve always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it.
Everyone asks me if I’m the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it’s harder.
Without Metallica, I wouldn’t be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents’ basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars’ drum beats, beat by beat.
Boxing is dangerous. Anything can happen, so you need supreme confidence. That’s why I represent myself like nobody can beat me, because I need to truly believe it.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.
The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we’re way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can’t beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.
You can be an underdog, but you can beat the champion.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
I didn’t care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day – short attention span.
No I don’t miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don’t want to be one of them, I have children to raise.
What he’s done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It’s beautifully realised – it’s a beat film.
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.
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.
The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There’s this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.
At the end of the day, if you’re not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you’re probably not going to win many championships.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
