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• When I was a very young student I loved and admired the work of Sam Beckett, who is famously pessimistic, and whose writing is an extraordinary examination of emptiness. I wanted to be like Beckett. I don't have the same attitude toward the world, I'm naturally optimistic, and so of course I could never be like Beckett. You can't force yourself to become like someone you admire.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Attitude, Writing, Pessimistic

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

  Tommy Chong

  Eye, Looks, Body

  The Beyond Chronic Interview, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I do think that I am generally optimistic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

  Regina Spektor

  Light, Sides, Overwhelmed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

  Al Yankovic

  Guy, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Agreement, Want, Realizing

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Years, Optimism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

  Jonathon Keats

  Engineering, Way, Irresponsible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Government, People, Longing

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as well, that there are dyed-in-wool, compulsive predators like Harvey Weinstein on campuses too. But there are guys we can reach here. Once again, I'd like to be optimistic in the way that we look at this problem.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Strong, Communication, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see Americans across racial and economic and socioeconomic lines working together. And you maybe get a little bit less cynical than when you sit in the seat of kind of the epicenter of it all.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Cynical, Working Together, Kind

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• I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. How deep does New Age go? Has it come to terms with radical evil? More, I am not sure how much social conscience there is in New Age thinking.

  Huston Smith

  Thinking, Evil, Age

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• I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.

  Andrew Mango

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  David Attenborough

  Birth Rate, Giving, Climate

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• I don't feel very optimistic in London.

  David Bailey

  London, Feels

  "David Bailey's India: the long click goodbye" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

  Drew Barrymore

  Years, Stories, Want

  Interview with Elle, www.elle.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

  Lewis Black

  Morning, New York, Thinking

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• I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

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• I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

  Luke Bryan

  Enjoy Life, Celebrate Life, Persons

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Past, Flying Cars, Self

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• Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

  Jared Diamond

  Writing, Past, Giving

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.

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• I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

  Rita Dove

  Art, Perspective, Resurgence

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• I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Who I Am, Minnesota

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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