How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all. – David Blunkett
If we didn’t want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. – David Lynch
It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out. – Fritz Lang
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. – Donald Trump
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. – Dennis C. Blair
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them. – Frances Beinecke
In the balance of my professional life, I’ve had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher. – Neil Gorsuch
I’m at my best when I’m working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it. – Natalie Zea
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. – Faith Hill
My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned. – Erin Heatherton
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. – Manmohan Singh
I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it’s taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week – it’s a dream. I can’t imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week. – Marcia Cross
I have never made statements like, ‘I’m quitting TV’ or ‘I’m quitting Bollywood.’ I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two. – Mona Singh
I exist in a world that’s pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I’m trying to keep my balance. – Dave Checketts
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. – Donna Karan
I guess you’re happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I’m a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I’ve read the newspaper and I’ve done different things. – Frances Conroy
Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests. – Earl Blumenauer
The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock. – Nelson Peltz
In Hawaii, we have something called Ho’oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. – Duane Chapman
I want readers turning pages until three o’clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I’m always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme. – Guy Gavriel Kay
I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life. – Nathan Sawaya
I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public. – Douglas Alexander
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don’t balance the budget, we don’t pay them. – Daniel Keys Moran
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. – Martin McDonagh
I’ve got an extreme bias toward governors… they know what it’s like to make hard decisions. They know what it’s like to actually balance a budget – have a budget, first of all, and have a balanced budget. – Matt Mead
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and ‘why me,’ or I can look at it through love and say, ‘This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: ‘Hey, you’re out of balance here. It’s time to get in line with yourself.’ – Melissa Etheridge
