#ant

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#balance #basis #bipartisan #budget #done

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#fast #life #me #my life #swim

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#every #every time #obviously #pool #three

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#astonish #atlantic #bizarre #else #go

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#ambition #australian #circus #football #i

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#meant #meant to be #much #music #part

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#blond #blond hair #disadvantage #hair #i

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#i #kids #through #want #went

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding