Realist Quotes - Page 9

• Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Names, Cynicism, Cynic

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• While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a realist and know that we must not let the perfect bill be the enemy of real reform.

  John McCain

  Real, Past, Perfect

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• I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with the work of those moral realists who have tried to give naturalistic accounts of human flourishing, and who offer accounts of right action in such terms. (I suppose this is more evidence that I really do have deep affinities with Aristotle!)

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Philosophical, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It always felt like I had to be a realist.

  Jack Tatum

  Felt

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Way, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Dream, Europe, States

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.

  David Eddings

  Majesty, Cynic, Accused

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• I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Technology, Stories, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.

  Liv Ullmann

  Voice, Important, Trying

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Drama, Ambition, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

  John Hurt

  Witty, Optimistic, Truthful

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ghetto, Imagination, Fiction

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• I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.

  David Petraeus

  Reality, Iraq, Pessimist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect society, that it must be useful for society. Also, I have noticed many Western media outlets are very insistent on understanding contemporary art in China through this kind of realist approach. Sometimes I even sense that they are intent on, as we say in China, "picking bones of politics out of an egg of art." Or perhaps they see art as merely an instrument to reflect society.

  Wang Jianwei

  Art, Understanding, Chinese

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.

  Alex Ebert

  Fun, Reality, Thinking

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, Thinking, Europe

  "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• I am indeed a moral realist.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  May, Trends, Today

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

  Studs Terkel

  Born, Courses, Happens

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Adventure, Vision

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Freedom, Liberty, Circumstances

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• I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

  Todd Gitlin

  Thinking, Trying, Limits

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Sweet, Fiction, Crime

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