#other

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

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? ↗

— Christian Bale

#desire #even #fail #go #i

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else. ↗

— Christian Bale

#because #consider #decide #disasters #else

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. ↗

— Christian Bale

#believe #characters #clean #comes #create

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. ↗

— Christian Bale

#best #beyond #doing #environment #exactly

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#amount #beneath #gas #i #mean

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#because #christian #contained #dogma #dogmas

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. ↗

— Henri Barbusse

#army #commits #each #fight #large

Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#between #big #clear #dragging #imagine