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Ambition beats genius 99% of the time
Sep 10, 2025
You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.
You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.
My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.
So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
I'm more into beats than rhymes.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.
At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.
The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.
Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.