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• I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

  Mitch Daniels

  Majority, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments in Eastern Europe, even a totally controlled society cannot resist the winds of change that economics and technology and information flow have imposed in this world of ours. That is not an option. Our only realistic option is to embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow.

  William J. Clinton

  Wall, Fall, Technology

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Assessment, America

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• My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

  Jens Lehmann

  Disappointment, Thinking, Insulting

  "Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Work Out, Trying

  "King Kev's circus act" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

  Riane Eisler

  Our World, Hunger And Poverty, People

  Riane Eisler (2008). “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

  Price Pritchett

  Thinking, Impact, Hands

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

  Barbara Sher

  Inspiring, Dream, Inspiration

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• Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

  Andrea Barrett

  Dark, Evil, Gothic

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• At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

  Mark Harmon

  Real, Chicago, Staff

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• I'm not there to be the token sexy girl.  I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off.  It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic.

  Emma Stone

  Girl, Sexy, Nice

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• Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

  Will Smith

  Being Real, Mediocrity, Done

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• Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

  Alison Gopnik

  Kids, Thinking, Free Will

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

  Alia Shawkat

  Reading, Dark, Musical

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

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• I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

  Marton Csokas

  Trying, Looks, Nine

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

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• I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Reality, Schemes, Shows

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

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• I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.

  Graham McTavish

  War, Adventure, Character

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• One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.

  Eda LeShan

  Acceptance, Self, Perspective

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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• I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

  Gordon Clark

  Business, Optimistic, Long

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• This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or even if they thought they were in love, they were never in love. That too was a 'heady' thing, it was not of the heart. People live and go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Moving, Heart

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• Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

  India Knight

  Expectations, Unicorn, Happens

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• People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

  Bob Newhart

  Humble, Views, People

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• Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

  Julia Gillard

  Conviction, Given, Laconic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

  Vicki Lewis Thompson

  Children, Philosophical, Reality

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