Optimistic Quotes - Page 20

• A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

  Karen Duffy

  People, Mind, Diagnosis

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

  Bob Dole

  Get Better, Being Optimistic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, Distance

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• Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Taken, Past

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• I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

  Antonio Banderas

  Guy

  "Antonio Banderas: ‘Sex Scenes Never Get Easier’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2009.

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• The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

  I. F. Stone

  Technology, Men, Race

  I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA

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• I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

  Shalom Harlow

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feelings

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• I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

  Bob Brown

  Doe, Lifetime, Homosexuality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Thinking

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• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  Saku Koivu

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• I'm a generally optimistic person.

  Alison Brie

  Persons, Optimistic Person

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. February 23, 2010.

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• I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

  Charlie Crist

  Men, Way Forward, Challenges

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.8, Penguin

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• People are optimistic about the future.

  Helen Clark

  People

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• It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Being Positive, Great Things

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• I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

  James Frey

  Beautiful, Alive, Life Is

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• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

  Hopeful

  "CNN Crossfire" with James Carville and Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Science, Vision, Want

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• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Fiction, Way

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• I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Depressing, Work Out, Trying

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• Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

  Eric Kripke

  Television, Bunch

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

  Robert Kagan

  Taken, Russia, Democracy

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• My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

  Laura Marling

  Song, Realism, Not Pretty

  "My songs are not pretty" by Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2008.

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• I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, Want, Shows

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• Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

  Alana Stewart

  Negative, Done, Research

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• I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.

  Ben Silbermann

  Team, Hard Times, People

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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