J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds."
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Chris Brown
Singer, Songwriter, Dancer
"To be the best you have to beat the best"
Dizzy Dean
Baseball Player
"Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat."
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters"
Meek Mill
Rapper
"I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that."
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"Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister"
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"My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes."
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"I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me"
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"We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that."
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"You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players."
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"Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it."
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"If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat."
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"The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes"
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"You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums."
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"I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music."
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"To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world."
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"I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her."
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"I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me."
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"To be the best you must beat the best."
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"If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow."
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"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."
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"You beat Cancer by how you live."
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"If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!"
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it."
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"Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become."
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