The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.
I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.
Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.
In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.
I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.
I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.
The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.
No one wants to be beaten, even myself.
Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.