Practicals Quotes - Page 30

• This climate surrounding me has reached Clive Oppenheimer. In practical terms he sees that I'm not interested in any sort of daredevil stunts, I'm just interested in the work. And he's convinced that I'm clinically sane.

  Werner Herzog

  Climate, Daredevil, Not Interested

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Writing, Heart, Matter

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Sincere, Prime

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Issues, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Doors, Infinite

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

  Franca Sozzani

  Feelings, Magazines, Mood

  Source: wwd.com

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• To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

  Malcolm X

  Integration

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Past, Years

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

  David Remnick

  Europe, Economic Sanctions, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Sex, Important, Levels

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Thinking, Worry

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Two, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the practical experience and the relationships that I developed over the last 16 years, the president-elect [Donald Trump] sees it as an asset to moving his agenda and moving the country forward.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Prayer, Humanity

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Real, Hands, Agreement

  Source: www.gov.za

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• For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy.

  Paul Virilio

  Democracy, Example, Culture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Technological Development, Democracy, Culture

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

  Mary Robinson

  Commitment, Rights, Issues

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• [The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

  Rob Lowe

  Fellowship, Way, Outsiders

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And just as a practical matter, when we don't encourage voters to come out to the polls, the people who stay home quickest are black and brown folk.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Home, People, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, People, Firsts

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• Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Might, Anarchist

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in other cases any practical hope - of marriage. The circumstance of being currently unable to marry, while tragic, is not unique.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Unique, People, Disability

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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