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• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  Fernand Leger

  Independent, Term, Property

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• Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

  Bill Crawford

  Optimism, Worst, Deals

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• I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Christmas, Kids, Dark

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• I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

  Studs Terkel

  Thinking, Despair, World

  RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Play, Sentimental

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Eugenics, Giving

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.372, Inkling Books

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  T. S. Eliot

  Birthday, Optimism, Age

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• There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty other than to actually educate people so that they can get the jobs, so that people can be self-sufficient. And to be self-sufficient around careers - not just jobs, but careers.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Winning, People, Poverty

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Expectations, Effort

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• I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

  Dave Navarro

  Music, Thinking, Hair

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• In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

  Dennis Franz

  Taken, Perfect, Would Be

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• A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Struggle, Acceptance, Expectations

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• World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

  U Thant

  Heart, Order, Law

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Literature

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• People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reality, Long Walks, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

  Questlove

  Artist, White, Cobain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.

  Brian Chippendale

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• Don't front, don't put something out there that you feel isn't realistic and doesn't portray who you are. Just be yourself, be you, and don't be afraid to speak your mind.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Being Yourself, Speak Your Mind, Just Be Yourself

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Defends Her Now-Infamous Reaction to That Kim K. Selfie". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. March 15, 2016.

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• You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

  Khoi Vinh

  Balance, Absolutes

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.

  Sue Grafton

  Clever, Smart, Book

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

  Frank Luntz

  Trying, Way, Kind

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Military, Numbers, Expectations

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.

  Jessica Lange

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I can do anything I set my mind to if I believe and am realistic.

  Aleks Paunovic

  Believe, Mind, Ifs

  "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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