Manhattan’s always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it’s just got a vibe that’s hard to beat. I shouldn’t like it, but I do. I can’t put my finger on it.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
I don’t have any regrets about not having had children. What’s the point? It’s just something else to beat yourself up over.
If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn’t there before – you can’t beat that.
Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release – but music is physical. Music pummels you. It’s got a beat; it’s loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.
I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, ‘Oh I’m the fat, funny one,’ because that’s what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.
You can’t beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we’re exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.
I was never just a ‘fill in 16 bars on a beat’ rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.
Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
The SoCal weather can’t be beat, but I just haven’t quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.
I think it’s good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
You can’t beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
Bret ‘the Hitman’ Hart from circa, say, 1997, the U.S.-bashing Bret Hart, would have to lay a beat down on John Cena, I think.
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they’re all working really hard to beat us right now.
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang – we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
I’ve been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I’m doing a pretty good job.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I’d really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
Once your back’s up against the wall and you’ve been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.
When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn’t matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
All you have to do is put me in front of the people and put the beat in front of me, and the rest is history.
My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn’t be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.
I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.
A black man – I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you’re a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there’s getting beat and there’s getting stomped.
I play a lot of PlayStation, to be honest. I play with Marcelo Melo, and he can’t beat me. That makes me very happy. That’s my evening routines.
In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.
I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called ‘roof ball.’ We’d play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.
I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn’t beat – Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother’s lips to kiss you.
As an actress we don’t beat one another. It’s whoever’s right for the part.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It’s always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
Let me tell you something about Joe Manganiello – I don’t care, dude. The most impressive thing that you have on your cinematography is that you got beat up by Spiderman.
There’s no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It’s ridiculous. He’s nowhere near as heavy as me; he doesn’t have a fraction of the strength I have. There are a lot of ways that Daniel Bryan can possibly beat me.
I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven’t dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.
Us women can beat these men, we just need more opportunities to prove ourselves.
I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don’t need to beat yourself up about it.
I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can’t – you can’t put a wall up around here. We tried that in the ’30s. It didn’t work.
I couldn’t beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can’t beat him, find a race that he won’t swim.
Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true.
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.
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.
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.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
You can’t go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better – it’ll eat you alive.
You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that’s what you’ll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
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.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don’t believe in the term ‘next superstar.’
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game – getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about ‘sidewalk’ instead of ‘pavement,’ sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.
