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.
We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there’s only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
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.
You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.
The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that’s all I’m thinking about.
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 can’t beat a place like the Air Force. I don’t mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it’s been a lot of fun.
When it comes to designer, you can’t beat Victoria Beckham. I love her stuff.
I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn’t missed a beat.
I’m not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
‘Welcome to Atlanta’ was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.
There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.
I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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.
You know my wife, she’s 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they’re big and fast.
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won’t tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.
If you have your eye set on somebody, don’t beat around the bush.
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, ‘This is the end of me.’ Oh, how she would beat me.
Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.
Whether it’s pool or Ping Pong, I can’t stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That’s fine. I’d rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick up the guitar to develop the song. Other times I just write without any melodies, and I end up using those lyrics when I think I have the appropriate instrumental that would bring out and depict the emotions of what I have written.
Producing isn’t just making beats on a beat machine. It’s bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major… You bring these people together and let them all cook.
I was so beat down as a young person – being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.
I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote ‘Younger’ on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.
I don’t look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don’t give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have – we have all we want. We are evil.
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones’ feeling, anyone’s feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.
If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus – especially Arnie – he used to beat my brains out when we were young. In the end, I got even. I started beating him up. And that felt really good.
You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn’t anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.
My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started laughing back at her, then your spankings were through. That’s the way I was raised. So, I got to be about 13 years of age when finally she quit spanking on me. But I think that it was great way to be raised.
I’m part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that?
A good cup of Earl Grey tea – you can’t beat it.
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies’ man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn’t like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential ‘God, I exist, and nobody cares’ of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
I’ll hear a beat and think, ‘How can I make this a banger?’ I’ll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it’s going to be a slapper.
If you want to be the best, you’ve got the beat the best, and the best is ‘Blessed,’ baby.
I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it’s important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There’s a lot at stake.
I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are ‘What are you doing now?’ and ‘How are you going to beat that?’ And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that you’re in battle against yourself.
