A neighbor, who witnessed the beating, quoted one of the soldiers as saying, "We're going to see if he is really deaf and dumb or just too tough".
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Rosalynn Isimeto-Osibaumhe, a Nigerian woman who moved out after her husband repeatedly beat her, is quoted as saying, "The whole society needs to be overhauled".
The unlucky birthday boy, Andrew Poole, did not even get the chance to plug in his stereo and play music "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats," to quote the most famous line in the act.
And during "Technologic," they used the monotone refrain — "Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it, turn it, leave it, stop, format it" — to anchor the track, then kept switching the rhythm, briefly quoting the beat from Busta Rhymes's remake.
"We weren't going to be beat that day," Mr. Obama quoted him as saying.
One former student quoted by Beat said: "Not once at university had anybody questioned my health or given me any help or guidance.
"Daddy, they are beating me," the father quoted him as saying.
"You don't call someone who is brilliant and totally committed to beating you," Mr. Boies was quoted as saying.
Such a history lesson was told to us once again when Lil Wayne was put in check over rapping that he would quote "beat the (female genital area) up like Emmett Till".
