#deliberate

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened. ↗

— Joss Stone

#around #been #bit #deliberate #formative

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#deliberately #football #game #hurt #i

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. ↗

— Abe Fortas

#essential #heedless #inflicted #injury #instrument

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#essential #human #human nature #knowledge #nature

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#celebrity status #deliberately #i #i think #imagine

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#classy #decision-making #deliberate #family #lot

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention. ↗

— Judy Garland

#been #crying #deliberately #i #i think

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#bravest #break #breath #catch #deliberately

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#been #countries #deliberately #designed #fled