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• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

  David Eddings

  Fiction, Opinion, Popularity

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• I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

  Peter Mandelson

  Opportunity, Vision, Generations

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• We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

  Tom Lantos

  Fashion, Cautious, Be Cautious

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• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

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• The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Play, Complaining

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• I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Ends, Knows

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• As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

  Dee Bradley Baker

  Kids, Evil, Cynical

  "5 Force-Full Questions: Dee Bradley Baker at Star Wars Celebration VI". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Opportunity, Judging, The End Of The Day

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• I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

  Fay Vincent

  Hopeful, Being Optimistic, I Can

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• The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Night, Negativity, Needs

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Challenges, Together, Environmental

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think it’s a joke. They’re very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change.

  Larry Diamond

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

  Mike Dirnt

  Party, Thinking, Earth

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• The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

  Irving Kristol

  Cheerful, Doe, Trouble

  Wall Street Journal, November 18, 1985.

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• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

  Kary Mullis

  Morning

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• I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

  Paul Begala

  Sunny Day, Sunny, Knows

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Artist

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• An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Artist, Tangible, Realist

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• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Doctors, Mistaken

  1910 Misalliance, preface.

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Impact, People, Entrepreneur

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• I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Pessimistic, Debate

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• There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Axes, Fancy

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• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  Jack Layton

  Inspiration, Careers, People

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Simple, Republic, Assumption

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

  Bob Seger

  Play, People, World

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