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#practise

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #practise




See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.


John Sladek


#background #call #halt #handling #i

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.


Martha Gellhorn


#defeat #enjoy #i #moral #one thing

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.


Jello Biafra


#controlled #corporate #creative #down #here

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.


Edward de Bono


#creativity #idea #mystical #nurtured #practised

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.


Margaret Cavendish


#bashful #being #belonged #court #dull

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.


Uma Thurman


#actress #actually #around #calling #enough

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.


Michael Tippett


#art #being #certain #conspiracy #decently

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.


Ai Weiwei


#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.


Wendell Willkie


#been #boundaries #designs #had #imperialism

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.


Henry Adams


#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practise






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