"People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit."
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"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is."
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"If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity"
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"The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing."
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"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes."
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"Get your money in balance. One rule of thumb is 50/30/20. Spend about 50% of your money on must-haves - things like rent, car payments - and about 30% on wants, while 20% should go toward savings and paying down debt."
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"The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success."
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"Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps."
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"I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice."
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"Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour."
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"You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace."
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"Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over."
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"I've been fortunate in that I've been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I'm able to keep that balance, I'd love to always try to do both."
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"Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability."
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"Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray."
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"My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value."
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"If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you."
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"I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those."
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"Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it."
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"So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency."
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