#elves

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools. ↗

— William Bennett

#bad #bankruptcy #declare #educate #educational

I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met. ↗

— Peter Berg

#biggest #charismatic #cocky #enough #ever

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#best #blossom #give #into #mission

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#destroy #divine #does #faith #imposed

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#even #know #lives #others #ourselves

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#dictatorship #heart #house #king #least

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. ↗

— Barry Bonds

#baseball #care #how #know #life

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#enriches #everything #find #finding #get

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#busy #credit #damning #done #far