I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
BARBARA CORCORAN
BARBARA CORCORAN
Barbara Corcoran on balance
Barbara Corcoran105 quotes“I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.”
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The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
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Tim AllenTim Allen There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
Irrfan KhanIrrfan Khan There’s always a ying-yang in life. With everybody. There’s evil in all of us. It’s just about how you balance out the evil and the good and having faith in yourself and how you carry yourself.
Ski Mask the Slump GodSki Mask the Slump God Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.
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