I believe everything is about balance. I’m not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody. – Valentina Zelyaeva
Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don’t see it, eventually, it’s not like it’s not going to happen, but it’s just that there needs to be a balance. – Zoe Saldana
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. – Siegfried Lenz
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. – Samuel E. Morison
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. – Vince Cable
My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers. – Suriya
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I’ve also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. – Stephane Rolland
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. – Sherilyn Fenn
Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray. – Sonequa Martin-Green
Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn’t thrown out of balance, and so there’s no need for a ‘rest of the story’ to balance it back. – Stephen Graham Jones
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action – to try to balance out those effects. – Sonia Sotomayor
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools – on the last six months of life and the first six months of life. – Thomas Friedman
What’s wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves. – Saul Williams
And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it’s understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that’s a true moment. – Tony Shalhoub
I do expect a lot from myself, but it’s also a balance of being… positive and also pushing yourself. – Venus Williams
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. – Tara Brach
I think it’s really cool how J. Lo’s been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That’s something I strive for. – Victoria Justice
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months’ worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards. – Suze Orman
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. – Warren Bennis
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. – Steven Spielberg
I’m still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven’t found that balance yet. – Sharon Van Etten
Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It’s the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. – Tullian Tchividjian
In the context of our world, sizes 8 and 10 are teeny, but not for Hollywood. I had to ask myself, ‘Do I want to be somebody who worries about what I’m eating? Or do I want to find a balance where I can be healthy and not consumed by that and maybe have to buy some larger pants?’ I bought new pants. – Tracee Ellis Ross
I love what I do for a living, it’s the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don’t truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I’m always trying to balance that with what is really important. – Tom Hanks
When you’re clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I’ll probably have to be on it the rest of my life. – Terry Bradshaw
The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you’re ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don’t. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job. – Travis Bradberry