Optimist Quotes
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I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .
Hasan Minhaj
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The optimist regards the future as uncertain.
Eugene Wigner
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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
William Arthur Ward
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
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Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.
Bob Higgins
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In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
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I've always been an optimist.
George Clooney
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I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.
Charles Bowden
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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Alice Herz-Sommer
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
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An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson
