Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Makeup
  • Bed
  • Teeth

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Great
  • Eating

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Person
  • Everything

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Equal
  • Alike

• I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also, I'd like to go to South America especially as I'm now living in that part of the world, in L.A. now. And I must get down to Mexico.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • World
  • America
  • Father

• Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Giving
  • Imagination
  • Film

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Outcast

• How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Bankrupt
  • Teranny