#elf

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. ↗

— James Baldwin

#american #any #begins #himself #his

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

#dishonesty #god #grasping #himself #honesty is

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. ↗

— Christian Bale

#deadline #giving #gone #i #i can

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before. ↗

— Christian Bale

#along #because #before #comes #different

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#cancer #everything #intellectual #intellectual property #itself

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#avarice #beauty #bid #both #disinterested

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#both #change #completely #dead #going

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#been #could #i #internet #making

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! ↗

— Joseph Banks

#degrees #glorious #heel #how #myself