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• I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Broken, Daydreaming

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  Vera Wang

  People, Design, Cost

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• I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

  Gwen Stefani

  Forever, Performing, Backup

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• We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  School, People, Promise

  "Iain Duncan Smith appeals to businesses to employ young Britons" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  Vin Scully

  Baseball, Hate, Loneliness

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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Doing Me

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• Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

  Matthew Perry

  Smart, Important, Going Away

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• Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

  Robert Pattinson

  Believe, Play, People

  "Robert Pattinson Says His Character In ‘Bel Ami’ Is a “Shit” & Film Will Be Hard To Market" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

  Danica Patrick

  Cheer, Weekend, Play

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• My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Running, Teacher, Jobs

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• I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Tragedy, Serious Subjects

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• I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Views, Logical

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• One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Real, Thinking, Wings

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• SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Government, Years

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• I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

  Otis Williams

  Swings, Views, Years

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• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  Rachel Zoe

  Baby, Money, Reading

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.

  Chris Ware

  Character, Action, Strange

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Thinking, Squares

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• Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Art, Simple

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sleep, Men, Gentleman

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.215, Bantam

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• Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Reality, Useless

  Michel Houellebecq (2005). “H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life”, McSweeney's

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• It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Attitude, Insane World, Self

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• A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very realistic, so I just wanted to do something that was more down to earth. And I think my fans, who already know a lot about me, will learn something new.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Song, Frustration, Thinking

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

  Clifford Geertz

  Motivation, Powerful, Men

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.98, Hachette UK

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