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Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
Ken Livingstone
Well
Pragmatic
Very
Person
Mean
Much
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
Kevin Barry
Training
Think
Side
Way
Out
Writer
Takes
Journalism
Pragmatic
Craft
Useful
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Linus Torvalds
Generally
Pragmatic
Very
Person
Which
Works
Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.
Lisa Jewell
Me
Valentines
Gifts
Would
Would-Be
Like
Pragmatic
Romantic
Wasted
Flowers
Need
I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.
Lisa Murkowski
Way
John
Support
Pragmatic
Any
Want
Need
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou
Generation
Understanding
Believe
More
Taiwan
He
Leaders
Sophisticated
Ideological
Pragmatic
His
Than
Represents
Predecessors
Different
Much
Less
Many
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright
Me
You
Business
Made
Tough
Laugh
About
Bottom
Bottom Line
Idealist
Like
Know
Because
Pragmatic
Sound
Am
Line
Lady
Stories
Then
Really
Whole
Dragon
Set
It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
Mark Zuckerberg
You
World
Understanding
Nice
Philosophy
Easy
About
Direction
Both
Openness
Pragmatic
Go
Getting
Being
Where
Different
Want
Moving
Really
Requires
Different Thing
Thing
The issue of Kashmir is both political and emotional in nature. Any pragmatic and lasting solution needs India and Pakistan sitting together on a table and discussing a solution that addresses the aspirations of Kashmiris and does not compromise the territorial integrity of either India or Pakistan.
Mehbooba Mufti
Needs
Nature
Together
Integrity
Political
Lasting
Address
Solution
India
Table
Compromise
Both
Emotional
Territorial
Pragmatic
Does
Issue
Discussing
Sitting
Any
Either
Aspirations
Kashmir
Pakistan
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
Architecture
Between
Pragmatic
Equity
Any
Function
Symbolic
In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.
Michael Horton
Work
God
Society
Saving
Our
Ours
Having
Message
Pragmatic
Offensive
Egos
Us
Shot
Therapeutic
Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.
Michael Redhill
Women
People
World
Smart
Thought
Save The World
Else
Batman
Way
Struggling
Hot
Calculating
Like
Pragmatic
Demons
Been
His
Lot
Tragic
Wondered
Child
Trying
Often
After
While
Package
Depressed
Might
Younger
Whole
Even
Found
Core
Save
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
Mikheil Saakashvili
Great
Considerations
Enslaved
Unacceptable
Totally
Great Nations
Small
Small Nations
Between
Because
Pragmatic
Deals
Been
Any
Nations
Might
Keeping
People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
Pep Guardiola
Me
You
People
Sorry
Say
Must
People Say
More
Pragmatic
Clinical
Than
There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.
Pete Buttigieg
War
Health
Generation
People
Lost
Marriages
My Generation
Could
Idea
Around
Pragmatic
Built
Been
Up
Being
Romantic
Which
Sent
View
Avoided
Who
Wars
Lives
Consequence
Tons
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
Art
Day
Me
Long
All Day
Constantly
Above
Pursuit
Ideal
Concept
Because
Pragmatic
Discuss
Just
Inclined
A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
Robert Dallek
Hope
Great
Will
Seen
Shifting
Presidential
Some
Insincere
Purpose
Higher
Pursuit
Pragmatic
Candidate
Mean
Utterly
Desire
While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.
Sanjaya Baru
Free
Building
System
Rather
Charter
Free Trade
Trade
Building Blocks
Pragmatic
Always
Arrangements
Trading
Blocks
Than
Regarded
While
Regional
Barriers
Multilateral
Chose
Rejected
I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
Sebastian Horsley
Nature
You
Believe
Think
Born
Pragmatic
Yearn
Die
I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.
Sergei Lavrov
Work
You
Ideology
Party
Assure
High
Diplomat
Spite
Days
Know
Terms
Practical
Pragmatic
Always
Been
Very
Trying
Soviet
Being
Agenda
Communist
Communist Party
Started
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
Tamsin Egerton
Intelligence
Bit
More
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
He
Unconventional
She
Pragmatic
Whereas
Businessman
Dad
Mum
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.
Thomas Piketty
History
Science
Political
Community
Broader
About
Part
Study
Economists
Pragmatic
Methods
Political Science
Social
Modest
Should
Use
Aware
Need
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
Tori Amos
Rights
Women
Father
Mind
King
He
Pragmatic
Very
Much
Dr
Dr. King
I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
Victor Mitchell
Myself
Conservative
Consider
Would
Pragmatic
Sensible
As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
Victoria Smurfit
Woman
Joy
Three
Glorious
Sides
Able
Pretty
Glamour
Messed
Pragmatic
Any
Being
Which
Actress
Play
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar
Myself
Pragmatic
Got
Optimist
Confess
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