Optimistic Quotes - Page 18

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  Jack Layton

  Inspiration, Careers, People

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Simple, Republic, Assumption

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

  Bob Seger

  Play, People, World

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• A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

  Karen Duffy

  People, Mind, Diagnosis

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

  Bob Dole

  Get Better, Being Optimistic

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

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• Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, Distance

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• Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Taken, Past

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• I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

  Antonio Banderas

  Guy

  "Antonio Banderas: ‘Sex Scenes Never Get Easier’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2009.

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• The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

  I. F. Stone

  Technology, Men, Race

  I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA

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• I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

  Shalom Harlow

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feelings

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• I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

  Bob Brown

  Doe, Lifetime, Homosexuality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Thinking

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• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  Saku Koivu

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• Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• I'm a generally optimistic person.

  Alison Brie

  Persons, Optimistic Person

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. February 23, 2010.

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• I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

  Charlie Crist

  Men, Way Forward, Challenges

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.8, Penguin

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• People are optimistic about the future.

  Helen Clark

  People

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• It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Being Positive, Great Things

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• ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Breakfast, Optimist

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Talking, Perfection

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

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• Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Optimism, Dreamer

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• [The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

  John Templeton

  Hurt, Learning, Conceited

  "Remembering Sir John Templeton" by Jessi Hempel, archive.fortune.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Teaching, Years

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, June 1, 1999.

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• Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the next day to your medical doctor and he referred you to the book of Hippocrates, which was written at about the same time as the Bible, you would think that was old-fashioned.

  John Templeton

  Book, Thinking, Doctors

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

  John Templeton

  Science, Two, People

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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