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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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• In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

  Dan Mangan

  War, Winning, Robots

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Paris, London

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• Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

  Kirby Wright

  Love, Tough, Destroyed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

  Garry Kasparov

  Ukraine, Agreement, Moscow

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

  Rebecca Wells

  People, Insane, Together

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

  Theodore White

  Europe, America, Purpose

  Theodore H. White (1961). “THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960”

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• I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.

  Randall Wallace

  Writing, Character, Dark

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Government, Talking, Long

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

  Winston Churchill

  Prophet, Disposition, Sole

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark last moments. After a while though, I don't want to send the audience home bummed out, or distressed ... I want to see what's hopeful. I'm not overly cheery all the time, and yet I'm not suicidal either. I do think people can make choices that make their lives happier.

  Christopher Durang

  Home, Suicidal, Dark

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• I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people's lives.

  George W. Bush

  Philosophy, Real, Responsibility

  Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  Sarah Silverman

  Smart, Mean, Cynical

  FaceBook post by Sarah Silverman from Mar 16, 2011

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• Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Crush, Art, Children

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• I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

  Vaginal Davis

  Home, Sentimental, Ritual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

  John Irving

  Country, Thinking, President

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• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

  Karl Rove

  Important, Culture, Want

  'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2004.

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• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  Cory Booker

  Be Kind, Discouraged, Angry

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 02, 2016

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• If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.

  Matt Blaze

  September 11, Suffering, Trying

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

  Rumi

  Interpretation, True Ones, Active

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• I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

  Robert Palmer

  Attitude, Thinking, Wells

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