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The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin Crisp
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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons
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I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
Jessica Chastain
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I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
Soe Hok Gie
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
George Carlin
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
Esther Perel
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A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
Adam Dunn
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A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
Dean Koontz
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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
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Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore
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A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
Michael Shaara
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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton
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I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Tom Hiddleston
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones
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It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
Karen Russell
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Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright
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"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni
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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
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You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
David Eddings
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I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
Ava DuVernay
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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Daniel Woodrell
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Octavia Spencer
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Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen King
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It always felt like I had to be a realist.
Jack Tatum
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I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
Olga Korbut
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I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
Bill Maher
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He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
Stephen King
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I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?
George Carlin
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In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.
Nancy Spain
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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
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An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Peter Drucker
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Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas