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• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  Rachel Zoe

  Baby, Money, Reading

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Space, Elysium

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• I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

  Vir Das

  Children, Fun, Fighting

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• Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Grotesque, Cases

  "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (1960)

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• Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hero, Long

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• To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Inspirational, Believe, Miracle

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• believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Disheartened

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

  Hugh Prather

  People, Feelings, Misunderstood

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• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Safety, Heartfelt

  "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.

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• You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sweet, Depressing

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• Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.
  If we accept them we will never win.
  Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,
  We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 1. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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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 have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Real, Night

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Optimistic, Laughing

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

  J. G. Ballard

  Simple, Hyper, Higher

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• I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Memories, Fall

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• Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sadness, Mean, Evil

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Motivational, Adventure, Army

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• My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

  Tracey Emin

  New Year, Successful, Night

  Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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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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• Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

  Greg Norman

  Basketball, Art, Hard Work

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• Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

  Bernard Crick

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

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