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• You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

  Dean Kamen

  Inspirational, Stars, Teenage

  "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.

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• To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Reality, Visionaries, Today

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• I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Long, People

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  Edith Head

  Depressing, Musical, Today

  Edith Head, Paddy Calistro (1983). “Edith Head's Hollywood”, E P Dutton

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• I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Fighting, World

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.45, Egmont UK

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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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• I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Trying, Way, Scene

  "Old News: Bringing it On Since 1898". Interview with Brendan Lemon, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2000.

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• How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I'm more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I'm proud of.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Thinking, Body

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• Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

  Sergei Bubka

  Crazy, Risk, Needs

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• No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

  Saul Bellow

  Cities, Chicago, Protection

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Honor, Looks, Said

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• Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

  Christopher Lasch

  Smile, Buttons, Denial

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  Queen Latifah

  Masters, I Can, Worth It

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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 could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Break

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• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cutting, Editing, People

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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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• Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he’s not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.

  Walter Isaacson

  Reality, Schedules, Fields

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

  Amy Lee

  Tiny, Plastic, Magnet

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• Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

  Lynda Barry

  Horror, Enjoy, Bits

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