#ali

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. ↗

— Eric Bana

#attracted #been #cars #completely #driving

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#any #case #dangerous #generalizations #i

I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. ↗

— Eric Bana

#being #brought #european #family #friends

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone. ↗

— Eric Bana

#australia #back #cars #finished #historic

I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing. ↗

— Eric Bana

#i #into #other #revealing

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#beauty

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#california #despair #disappointment #failure #i

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' ↗

— Javier Bardem

#after #back #come #doing #go

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalist #capitalist society #class #fights #hand