I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it’s always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it’s like to be someone who doesn’t belong.
You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance – better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.
Swing is extreme coordination. It’s a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It’s about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.
In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you’ll look great in anything.
I do think that we need more of a balance between merit-based and familial-based immigration.
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents – you’re perpetually a child and they’re perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that’s the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America’s capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos – but it was happy chaos.
When I’m in the gym, I’m in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I’m not in the gym, I’m enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn’t spend all of my time in either place.
The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
Can they do both? That’s a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it’s everything, you know, it’s social life, it’s academics, it’s sports.
My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
Focus on being balanced – success is balance.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it’s best to acknowledge that weird balance.
If you don’t have a functioning financial system the world economy won’t be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
We’ve got to start worrying about America. And if we don’t start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn’t matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.
My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it’s really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.
American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
I don’t believe in balance, not in the classic way.
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don’t really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren’t savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don’t know how to satisfy both palates.
On the one hand, I am a businesswoman – on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
It’s important to find a balance between Pokemon and training.
What I tell my kids is, ‘I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.’
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
It’s not about what the speaker wants. It’s not about necessarily what I want. There’s two other principles involved here. It’s what the constituents in my district want, and they didn’t want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.
Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children’s lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
In today’s society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there’s always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
‘The Office’ is less a comedy than so many other ‘comedies’ that have been on the air. It’s really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that ‘hippie quality’ – my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy – so we’ll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.
I was recently asked about the business side of ‘Biggest Loser,’ but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It’s a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show – it’s uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don’t. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
