My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
Shawn Porter is a good fighter, but he hasn't accomplished nearly as much as Danny Garcia has accomplished or beat the fighters who he has beat.
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.
I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
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.
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
I'm not saying I'm even half as talented or a quarter as talented as any of the people I'm inspired by, but if I hear a beat Busta Rhymes would absolutely kill, I'll use my voice to do a flow similar to his.
I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
