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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ↗

#definition #heart #himself #his #imagines

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. ↗

#first #gospels #narratives #passion #pieces

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. ↗

— Christian Bale

#certain #character #else #embarrassing #embarrassment

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. ↗

— Christian Bale

#also #being #big #each #entertainment

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#because #had #i #passing #regret

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#american dream #assassination #car #dream #dreams

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#history #humanity #ineffectual #novels #passion

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#own #parents #passion #teachers #your

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#business #greater #his #man #pride

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗