Quotes About Pragmatic

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

I am very practical.

I'm a practical woman.

Well, I won't say I'm cynical. I'd say I'm pragmatic.

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

I am a very pragmatic person.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

I'm very pragmatic.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

I am not against migration. It is simply pragmatic to restrict migration, while at the same time encouraging integration and fighting discrimination. I support the idea of the free movement of goods, people, money and jobs in Europe.

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

I think Mr. Trump is a pragmatic man; he is a businessman.

Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.

I'm pragmatic.

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'