"Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life."
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"If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will."
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"I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true."
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"I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life."
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"It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix."
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"For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together."
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"The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who."
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"Any game that you step on, you can get beat."
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"Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays."
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"I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry."
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"Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening."
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"Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better."
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"When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody."
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"I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat."
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"The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really."
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"I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock."
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"The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life."
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"The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke."
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"You have to move to your own beat."
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"I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you."
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