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• I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

  Gordon Clark

  Business, Optimistic, Long

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• One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.

  Eda LeShan

  Acceptance, Self, Perspective

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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• I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.

  Graham McTavish

  War, Adventure, Character

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• I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Reality, Schemes, Shows

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

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• I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

  Marton Csokas

  Trying, Looks, Nine

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

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• I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

  Alia Shawkat

  Reading, Dark, Musical

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

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• I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Believe, Skills, Differences

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• Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

  Will Smith

  Being Real, Mediocrity, Done

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• I'm not there to be the token sexy girl.  I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off.  It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic.

  Emma Stone

  Girl, Sexy, Nice

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• At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

  Mark Harmon

  Real, Chicago, Staff

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• Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

  Andrea Barrett

  Dark, Evil, Gothic

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• Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

  India Knight

  Expectations, Unicorn, Happens

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• People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

  Bob Newhart

  Humble, Views, People

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• Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

  Julia Gillard

  Conviction, Given, Laconic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.

  Dennis Franz

  Taken, Perfect, Would Be

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• I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

  Dave Navarro

  Music, Thinking, Hair

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• Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

  Jim Clyburn

  Iraq, Expectations, Effort

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• I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  T. S. Eliot

  Birthday, Optimism, Age

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• Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Eugenics, Giving

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.372, Inkling Books

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• Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Play, Sentimental

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

  Studs Terkel

  Thinking, Despair, World

  RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Christmas, Kids, Dark

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• Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

  Bill Crawford

  Optimism, Worst, Deals

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• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  Fernand Leger

  Independent, Term, Property

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