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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. -- Jacques Barzun
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage. -- Brian Molko
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. -- Brit Marling
Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem. -- Candice Accola
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -- Cecil Beaton
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path. -- Virginia Postrel
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have. -- Lamar Alexander
Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest. -- Britt Ekland
I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community. -- Allen West
America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art. -- Aimee Mullins
I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical. -- David Leslie Johnson
As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is. -- Marketa Irglova
When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away. -- Rob Brydon
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. -- Smedley Butler
Something impractical cannot be beautiful. -- Otto Wagner
Violence is not only impractical but immoral. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence is not only impractical but immoral. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no place for impractical dreamers around here. -- William S. Burroughs
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. -- Richard Hofstadter
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird. -- Simon Blackburn
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...] -- Zadie Smith
Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE! -- Mike Phillips
It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical. -- Rukmini Maria Callimachi
[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress. -- Eleanor Perenyi
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti -- Jacques Barzun
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BE PRACTICAL BY WORDS NOT BY HEART BECAUSE HUMANITY LIES IN IMPRACTICAL HEARTS -- merlin8thomas
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. -- Adam Phillips
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. -- Ayn Rand
Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life. -- Ralph Marston
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. -- Paul Henderson
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. -- Lewis Wolpert
I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical. -- Frank Gehry
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. -- Chris Guillebeau
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run. -- Desmond Tutu
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. -- Katharine Hepburn
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream. -- Douglas Bloch
Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless. -- Criss Jami
... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical. -- Andrew Bernstein
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL. -- Rebecca Solnit
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us. -- Robin Sharma
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter. -- Steve Pavlina
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. -- Marquis de Sade
Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish. -- Swami Vivekananda
Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist. -- Bill Richardson
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Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war. -- Walter Cronkite
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional. -- Samuel Adams
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. -- Chuck Klosterman
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. -- Edward M Hays
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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