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I've always been a big fan of the Freedom Caucus, i've always felt for them. Because they've been criticized, and beat up, and misunderstood. But they've got the right priorities. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
During my time in Tennessee, Tennessee Titans went through a lot of different things. I went through coaching changes, went through a broken ankle, some of these things that people would call adversity, at that point in time in my career in 2019, I was tired. I was just kind of tired of all the turnover, was tired of being beat up, and I was n’t playing well, and at the end of the day, this is a performance-based business, and when you’re not playing well, things happen, and I understood that. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP. – Tennessee Titans	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My role as mayor is being interpreted through the prisms of your realities and not mine. So when you write stories, you’re not writing stories for people who were almost homeless like me. You’re not writing stories for people who were arrested and beat up by police officers. You’re not writing stories for those who are dealing with high crime. You’re writing them from your prisms. – Eric Adams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They figured, surely to God we can move one person. We can badger and beat up one person, surely we get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough. – Joe Manchin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Health is a big part of it, we got pretty beat up last year, especially on defense and that made it tough. I think that if we can stay healthy and keep guys out there, that really helps. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP. – Quinn Harris/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One was said that Paul had pushed his housemate down the stairs, and she died, and nothing ever happened, and another one, there was something that Paul was supposedly involved with a guy, got found beat up in the middle of the road, that they got out of. – Connor Cook	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What... me fight you? The biggest thing I’ve ever beat up was a cake mix – Ellen Creel	added by Ellencreel1961 2 years ago
We condemned the violence on Jan. 6 and we condemned it last summer. It would’ve been nice if our colleagues on the other side had done the same, last summer when police were being pelted with frozen water bottles, bricks and beat up, where were they? They were raising money to bail out rioters who were doing those very actions to the police.And today we get a lecture about how we haven’t been consistent, you’ve got to be kidding me! – Scott Applewhite	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. – Mohammed Ali	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
They were going to be beat up badly, if they were lucky, and these people were standing there, never used it [weapons] and they were legal,the weapons. And now I understand somebody local, they want to prosecute these people. Its a disgrace. – President Trump about their case	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We knew we were going to get beat up, criticized, a bit because there were several officers there. It never looks good. But then I was shown the body camera video, i watched the video. Mr. Griffin was great with my deputies. And my deputies were extremely professional. I called each and every one of them to thank them for their professionalism. I called Mr. Griffin, too, and thanked him for how he handled the situation. When you get stopped by police this is how to act. This really is a teachable moment. We can learn from each other. – Sheriff Chitwood	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We'll take the underdog spot but — when that day comes, basically it's a toss-up on who's got the hot putter, and could be just a battle throughout the day, we're going to go tee it up and try and beat up on each other as bad as possible but have some fun. – Rickie Fowler	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I could have kept it open and I could have done what some countries are doing. Theyre getting beat up pretty badly, if I would have done that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of people right now who would be dead. Weve done this right. – Ivanka Trump	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We had been through sit-ins and kneel-ins where we had been beat up and locked up and cussed out and locked out, it was a milestone, a watershed. It helped America take off the cloak of official segregation. – The Rev. Joseph Lowery	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Just because you're a woman doesn't mean you can beat up in a way the jury finds offensive. – Donna Rotunno	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Could Cliff Booth beat up Bruce Lee ? Brad Pitt would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff Booth maybe could, if you ask me the question,' Well, who would win in a fight : Bruce Lee or Dracula ?' It's the same question. It's a fictional character. If I say Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up, Cliff Booth's a fictional character, then Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up. – Quentin Tarantino	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy, i didn't just make a lot of that up. I heard Bruce Lee say things like that, to that effect. People are saying,' Well, Bruce Lee never said Bruce Lee could beat up Muhammad Ali.' Uh, yeah, Bruce Lee did. Not only did Bruce Lee say that, Bruce Lee wife, Linda Lee, said that. In the first biography I ever read was Linda Lee's' Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew,' and Linda Lee absolutely said it. – Quentin Tarantino	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Im not going to race. I cant. Im too beat up, i need the break. – Lindsey Vonn	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The core issue is that all the people in that audience, and millions of patriotic Americans all across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down upon, talked down to by members of Congress on the left in Washington, D.C., and their allies in many quarters of the media. – Stephen Miller	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We saw all he had to go through to get to that point as an African-American quarterback. He had to overcome a lot of stigmas and a lot of stereotypes to prove himself in this league, so it goes beyond just the numbers, it goes beyond just what you see on the stat sheet. To see him in the locker room getting taped up and having to take naps because he was tired and beat up and have to get up the next day and go out and fight, that was our culture. Thats who we were. – Eddie George	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It could be historic, but if he just gets beat up by the Republicans, it won't be. – John Dean	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Jamaican and the American were both in the doctor's office in 2017, he looked more beat up than me so I just decided I was going to go say' Hey, you are an amazing athlete'. I just left it at that. – Noah Lyles	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
( They) came back with their parents. The boys with their parents barged into the school, beat up the girls. – Mrityunjay Kumar Chaudhary	Found on CNN 5 years ago
At minimum, doing it helps maintain what you have, especially as an athlete and a football player, as he’s going through a season and his bodies getting beat up, everything starts to shut down — ‘Boy, I feel stiff. I’m sore. I can’t do this.’ But if you’re doing things throughout the season, like yoga, to help maintain what you’ve established with your body, that helps you get through the season, helps reduce your chance of injury and things of that nature. – James Collins	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

I've always been a big fan of the Freedom Caucus, i've always felt for them. Because they've been criticized, and beat up, and misunderstood. But they've got the right priorities.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During my time in Tennessee, Tennessee Titans went through a lot of different things. I went through coaching changes, went through a broken ankle, some of these things that people would call adversity, at that point in time in my career in 2019, I was tired. I was just kind of tired of all the turnover, was tired of being beat up, and I was n’t playing well, and at the end of the day, this is a performance-based business, and when you’re not playing well, things happen, and I understood that. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

– Tennessee Titans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My role as mayor is being interpreted through the prisms of your realities and not mine. So when you write stories, you’re not writing stories for people who were almost homeless like me. You’re not writing stories for people who were arrested and beat up by police officers. You’re not writing stories for those who are dealing with high crime. You’re writing them from your prisms.

– Eric Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They figured, surely to God we can move one person. We can badger and beat up one person, surely we get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough.

– Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Health is a big part of it, we got pretty beat up last year, especially on defense and that made it tough. I think that if we can stay healthy and keep guys out there, that really helps. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

– Quinn Harris/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One was said that Paul had pushed his housemate down the stairs, and she died, and nothing ever happened, and another one, there was something that Paul was supposedly involved with a guy, got found beat up in the middle of the road, that they got out of.

– Connor Cook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What... me fight you? The biggest thing I’ve ever beat up was a cake mix

– Ellen Creel

added by Ellencreel1961
2 years ago

We condemned the violence on Jan. 6 and we condemned it last summer. It would’ve been nice if our colleagues on the other side had done the same, last summer when police were being pelted with frozen water bottles, bricks and beat up, where were they? They were raising money to bail out rioters who were doing those very actions to the police.And today we get a lecture about how we haven’t been consistent, you’ve got to be kidding me!

– Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

– Mohammed Ali

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

They were going to be beat up badly, if they were lucky, and these people were standing there, never used it [weapons] and they were legal,the weapons. And now I understand somebody local, they want to prosecute these people. Its a disgrace.

– President Trump about their case

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We knew we were going to get beat up, criticized, a bit because there were several officers there. It never looks good. But then I was shown the body camera video, i watched the video. Mr. Griffin was great with my deputies. And my deputies were extremely professional. I called each and every one of them to thank them for their professionalism. I called Mr. Griffin, too, and thanked him for how he handled the situation. When you get stopped by police this is how to act. This really is a teachable moment. We can learn from each other.

– Sheriff Chitwood

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We'll take the underdog spot but — when that day comes, basically it's a toss-up on who's got the hot putter, and could be just a battle throughout the day, we're going to go tee it up and try and beat up on each other as bad as possible but have some fun.

– Rickie Fowler

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I could have kept it open and I could have done what some countries are doing. Theyre getting beat up pretty badly, if I would have done that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of people right now who would be dead. Weve done this right.

– Ivanka Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We had been through sit-ins and kneel-ins where we had been beat up and locked up and cussed out and locked out, it was a milestone, a watershed. It helped America take off the cloak of official segregation.

– The Rev. Joseph Lowery

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Just because you're a woman doesn't mean you can beat up in a way the jury finds offensive.

– Donna Rotunno

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Could Cliff Booth beat up Bruce Lee ? Brad Pitt would not be able to beat up Bruce Lee, but Cliff Booth maybe could, if you ask me the question,' Well, who would win in a fight : Bruce Lee or Dracula ?' It's the same question. It's a fictional character. If I say Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up, Cliff Booth's a fictional character, then Cliff Booth could beat Bruce Lee up.

– Quentin Tarantino

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy, i didn't just make a lot of that up. I heard Bruce Lee say things like that, to that effect. People are saying,' Well, Bruce Lee never said Bruce Lee could beat up Muhammad Ali.' Uh, yeah, Bruce Lee did. Not only did Bruce Lee say that, Bruce Lee wife, Linda Lee, said that. In the first biography I ever read was Linda Lee's' Bruce Lee : The Man Only I Knew,' and Linda Lee absolutely said it.

– Quentin Tarantino

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Im not going to race. I cant. Im too beat up, i need the break.

– Lindsey Vonn

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The core issue is that all the people in that audience, and millions of patriotic Americans all across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down upon, talked down to by members of Congress on the left in Washington, D.C., and their allies in many quarters of the media.

– Stephen Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We saw all he had to go through to get to that point as an African-American quarterback. He had to overcome a lot of stigmas and a lot of stereotypes to prove himself in this league, so it goes beyond just the numbers, it goes beyond just what you see on the stat sheet. To see him in the locker room getting taped up and having to take naps because he was tired and beat up and have to get up the next day and go out and fight, that was our culture. Thats who we were.

– Eddie George

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It could be historic, but if he just gets beat up by the Republicans, it won't be.

– John Dean

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Jamaican and the American were both in the doctor's office in 2017, he looked more beat up than me so I just decided I was going to go say' Hey, you are an amazing athlete'. I just left it at that.

– Noah Lyles

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

( They) came back with their parents. The boys with their parents barged into the school, beat up the girls.

– Mrityunjay Kumar Chaudhary

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At minimum, doing it helps maintain what you have, especially as an athlete and a football player, as he’s going through a season and his bodies getting beat up, everything starts to shut down — ‘Boy, I feel stiff. I’m sore. I can’t do this.’ But if you’re doing things throughout the season, like yoga, to help maintain what you’ve established with your body, that helps you get through the season, helps reduce your chance of injury and things of that nature.

– James Collins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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