Practical Considerations Quotes

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored.

You don’t marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.

Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

There's certain circumstances, there's certain situations, there's certain decisions that have to be made based upon the business and you can't take that personal.

I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

I believe cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discontinued its use, even from a practical standpoint.

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling, then the money had better be really good. Sometimes you say yes to something you wouldn't always do because you need the money.

When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practical to have a dog. So I got a couple of kittens, and that was it.

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons.