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• If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Song, Ifs

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

  Bernie Siegel

  Giving Up, Doctors, People

  Dr. Bernie Siegel (2009). “365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love”, p.28, New World Library

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• It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Perception

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.21

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• I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

  Alice Fulton

  Reading, Mean, Views

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

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• Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

  Donald Bren

  Passion, Dedication, Vision

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• Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.

  Michele Borba

  Kids, Needs, Safe

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• Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Able, Revolution

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• If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Morning, Stars, Believe

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• I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

  Benjamin Watson

  Beautiful, Race, America

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, World, Want

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• New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

  Agnes Smedley

  New York, Destiny, Ignorant

  Agnes Smedley (2011). “Daughter of Earth”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• It's not that people like sad movies that make us feel like, "Oh, my god, what a bummer." We like emotionally moving experiences, where you feel like a slightly different person and you see the world a little different, after you finish. It lets you see your own life, in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good. And even though there might be sad content making this happen, the feeling that you're left with is one that is quite good, quite hopeful, clarifying and uplifting.

  Gayle Forman

  Uplifting, Moving, People

  Source: collider.com

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• A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mom, Perseverance, Book

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• The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

  Gertrude Stein

  Moving, Firsts, Painting

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Country, Jobs

  "Jeb Bush's 2016 launch strategy: Be the tortoise, not the hare" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2015.

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• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  Louie Gohmert

  Change, Leadership, Messages

  "Texas Rep. Gohmert to challenge Boehner for House speaker post". www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Sexy, Distance, People

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• I want to win. [...] We're not going on win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do each and every day. Dividing the country. Saying, creating a grievance kind of environment. We're going to win when we unite people with a hopeful, optimistic message. I have that message because I was a governor of a state that saw people lifted up, because we had high sustained economic growth.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Optimistic, Winning

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the only one to take out half of a brain.But I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I salute the House for having the courage to stand up and fight and defund ObamaCare. And I remain confident, hopeful and optimistic the House will stand their ground, will continue the fight, which means this issue is coming back to the Senate. And when it comes back to the Senate, after the House stands their ground yet again, we will have an opportunity for Republicans to come home.

  Ted Cruz

  Home, Optimistic, Mean

  "Federal government on brink of first shutdown in nearly two decades; Madonna contaminates concern". "The Five" with Andrea Tantaros, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfeld, Bob Beckel, Katie Pavlich, www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2013.

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• When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Bangs, Doe

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

  Barbara Boxer

  Energy, Bills, Building

  "Boxer Tackles Challenge of Preserving Earth for Future Generations". Interview with Jeanne Cummings, www.politico.com. March 19, 2007.

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• I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Thinking, Innovation

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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