When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I’m going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can’t go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.
What I’ve learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.
You can’t beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I’d like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
I’d like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I’m like a teenager. I’d have ‘Teen Beat’ if I could, for grown-ups.
One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.
I’m old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.
I was creating characters early. People didn’t beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down – and then brainwash them.
I don’t think you can beat a costumed monster. It’s brilliant. I’ll take that over CGI any day.
Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don’t even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
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.
You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we’re going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.
I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I’ve never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.
You can’t beat a cop drama. That’s what everybody seems to want to watch.
I wasn’t always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that’s not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I’d have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn’t see them.
I’m very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that’s part of life. Haters gonna hate.
It’s impossible to beat Katrina Kaif in looks and sex appeal. She’s too hot!
Every man’s got to figure to get beat sometime.
I’d like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
I’ve never been on the cover of ‘Tiger Beat’ magazine, let’s put it that way. But that’s not why you go see Primus. You don’t go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I’m wearing or what my new hairdo is.
I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that’s a fantastic reaction. I think that they’re really hearing something then.
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.
I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
I think there’s something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It’s just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Women’s humor seems to be a little more supportive. It’s just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I’m going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.
My husband doesn’t listen because his mother didn’t make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
There’s nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.
It’s hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we’d introduced on ‘Night Beat.’ But that proved easier said than done.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don’t feel like they belong.
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city – you don’t need to go to Beirut for that – but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.
At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I’d buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.
There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn’t want to hurt a girl, so I don’t know if I really won – I’d like to think I did.
If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.
You can’t beat a good doughnut. It has to be a jam one with light pastry and caster sugar on the outside. If I’m really tired, I have to hunt one down, because it gives me that sugar rush to keep me going.
