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• In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

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• A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

  Arthur Symons

  Venice, Saws, Faithfulness

  Arthur Symons (1907). “Cities of Italy”

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• A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Spiritual, Matter, Invisible

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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• I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

  Margaret George

  Regret, Sorrow, Sometimes

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Optimism

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• People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Winning, People

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• I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Cynical, Skeptic

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• A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mistake, Men, Grandfather

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• I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

  Soe Hok Gie

  Bitter, Idealist

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• The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

  Ray Bradbury

  Race, People, Insane

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• Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Idealist, Practicals

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

  Moby

  Age, Certain

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Believe, Miracle, Doe

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Actors, Lows, Rate

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• The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.

  C. Wright Mills

  Running, Acceptance, Mind

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

  Leonard Cohen

  Rain, Optimistic, Reality

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• She think I'm the realest out and I say 'damn that makes 2 of us'.

  Drake

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Life, Jesus, Optimistic

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• Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Mean, Fighting

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Miracle, Facts, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Reality, Trying, Scripts

  Source: www.aintitcool.com

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

  Walt Disney

  Uplifting, Gratitude, Moving Forward

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Courage

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