"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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"Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time."
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"Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing."
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"It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it."
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"You cant beat The Beatles, you join em."
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"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
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"He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me."
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"My week beats your year."
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"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."
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"I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call."
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"Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass."
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"Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat."
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"There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want."
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"you can't beat me and my prayers!"
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"To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."
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"We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget."
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