She describes this as the difference between being a realistic optimist and an unrealistic optimist.
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I may be an optimist, too much of an optimist, but we have to try hard to mitigate this exposure.
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But if you had to make a guess … I am an optimist in general, and I'm an optimist about Harper Lee.
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"I am a stubborn optimist, I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist," added Annan, who often joked about having learned from locals to wear earmuffs against the freezing cold during his undergraduate years at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the United States.
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If you're a cock-eyed optimist like Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, you're just a dope, and you're only able to be an optimist because you clearly haven't thought things through.
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" Such battles, an optimist observed, are "how science progresses.
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More of a space optimist: I believe in the mission.
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As for me, in this rare case, I'm an optimist.
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If you're a nihilist or a fatalist or an optimist.
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Cinderella, that fabled optimist, is an ideal role for her.
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He is an optimist, and loves animals and the countryside.
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You're an optimist, and you hate saying no to people.
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In the Latino business owner, you will find an optimist.
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This doesn't mean that I have to be an optimist.
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She's a relentless optimist, alert to the pleasures of life.
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Being an optimist doesn't mean you ignore tragedy and injustice.
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I'm the eternal optimist, and I think you are too.
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Optimist in Black is out on 5.27 via Agent Anonyme
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And Gates has tried to cast himself as an optimist.
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All of which makes me an economic optimist on balance.
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Specifically an Optimist, a vessel a bit over seven feet.
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I am an optimist basically coming from a pessimistic background.
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Nevertheless, Mr. Kesteloo, like Mr. Bezos, proclaims himself an optimist.
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I'm a huge optimist, and I couldn't recommend it more.
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Finally, being an entrepreneur requires you to be an optimist.
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Possibly it's because Salem was never much of an optimist himself.
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Every other person on the number six bus is an optimist.
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We both believe that optimist art is mostly used for propaganda.
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I'm always the optimist, I believe it can be worked out.
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That really depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.
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Maybe. But, call me a Panglossian optimist, I don't think so.
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Do you consider yourself an optimist in regard to environmental issues?
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BOB IGER: Well, I am-- you know, I am an optimist.
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You're the optimist of the zodiac, but Capricorn is the pessimist.
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"It's certainly frustrating and concerning but I'm an optimist," Esty said.
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She was an optimist also, whereas he was innately somewhat pessimist.
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So, you know, I tend to be an optimist about life.
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MOON JAE-IN is an optimist with an eye for symbolism.
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And slowly and surely, because I'm an optimist, we'll get there.
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I'm an optimist and even I can't generate much optimism now.
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But Collins, ever the optimist, thinks that history will vindicate him.
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GAVE IT ANOTHER GO on top of ETERNAL OPTIMIST amuses me.
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However, do not let that stop you from being an optimist.
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There's a techno-optimist view of how this story will unfold.
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Yet, despite the challenges facing Israel, Peres was the perpetual optimist.
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I'm an optimistic pessimist and I think you're an optimistic optimist.
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OPTIMIST tags, instantly recognizable by their vertical strokes, mark countless doors.
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He was no longer the optimist of even six months earlier.
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It takes remarkable fortitude to remain an optimist about Baltimore today.
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But the eternal optimist in me knows this too shall pass.
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"My father was the greatest optimist on earth," Chemi Peres said.
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Ever the optimist, he doesn't see the decline — he sees opportunity.
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"The eternal optimist always wants to win every game," he said.
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But my wife will tell you that I'm an eternal optimist.
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The optimist in me says that we'll soon see concrete victories.
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"There's no sense being in this business unless you're an optimist."
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"I'm an optimist, but not in a stupid way," he said.
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I know you're an optimist, but what is an unrecoverable offense?
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Immense failure and disappointment can turn any optimist into a cynic.
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Those experiences made me a technology optimist, and I remain one today.
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The whole experience isn't quite as seamless as an optimist might imagine.
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An optimist might conclude that more candour is just what relations need.
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"I'm an optimist at heart, but I'm also a realist," she said.
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In addition to being an eternal optimist, Gates is also highly pragmatic.
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I think we will … I'm an optimist by experience and by nature.
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Ben Carson, ever the optimist, continues to campaign despite being dead last.
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"I am a determined optimist," Davis told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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But only an incorrigible optimist would bet on that aim being achieved.
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It comes down to Peter the Gravely Voiced and Will the Optimist.
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Michelangelo, an optimist obsessed with pizza, is the gourmand of the group.
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Although King declares herself an unreformed optimist, there are undercurrents of bitterness.
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We just kids playing peewee league, optimist football, doing regular kid shit.
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Politicians are always claiming to be eternal optimists; Reid is no optimist.
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A pessimist believes life will get worse; an optimist knows it will.
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Statistics and efforts like these make it easy to be an optimist.
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She&aposs naturally an optimist, she said, and is energetic and enthusiastic.
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My grandfather, a combat hero from a peasant family, was an optimist.
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I'm an optimist, and I believe we can respond with material action.
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Did you know that being an optimist is good for your health?
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"I am clearly a crazy optimist—working here at all," Spoering said.
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"I have to say I continue to be an optimist," he said.
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Call me an optimist, but I refuse to believe that's the case.
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The future president was not yet "Ronnie", America's reassuring, twinkling, optimist-in-chief.
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"I am an optimist by nature," he said during a visit to Naples.
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This dude, down to his core, enjoys being alive and being an optimist.
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I want my children to see that, because I am also an optimist.
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The trick is to be a skeptical optimist and to pick your battles.
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The optimist in me says that this signals we are turning a corner.
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All this may sound a bit doom-laden but I am an optimist.
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You just need to decide if you are a pessimist or an optimist.
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I'm an eternal optimist about America, and maybe that's because I'm an immigrant.
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He was an optimist, he said in his 2015 article on habeas corpus.
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That last one may count as the only real optimist of the bunch.
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Professor Theodore Levin, producer of that Central Asian series, is a rare optimist.
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AND THAT'S WHY, BY THE WAY, JIMMY, I'M AN OPTIMIST ABOUT THE OUTCOME.
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Mr. Kerry, usually the optimist, sounded almost downbeat as he arrived in Italy.
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Arthur: I would guess that Reagan was a true optimist through and through.
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Randall, 60, is an optimist, and her faith in humanity is nearly universal.
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Globalist optimist: Trump is known to change his mind on just about everything.
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And it works because Kat, a cheery optimist, assumes the best in people.
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" The robot continues: "Above all, to be American is to be an optimist.
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Fundamentally, Picard cannot help who he is: a duty focused, morally bound optimist.
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First of all, I have to warn you that I'm an eternal optimist.
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"My brother was always very positive — he was an optimist," George Gilbert said.
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And to be an economic optimist means counting on the fundamentals to prevail.
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I think I am an optimist by day and a pessimist by nighttime.
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Ally Kostial was an eternal optimist who always saw the best in everyone.
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He was a believer in the best of everything, and a crazy optimist.
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Jean-Sébastien Jacques: You know I am always an optimist by nature right?
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"I am an optimist because I'm a scientist and vice versa," Henrich said.
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I can't say, but I'm an optimist, and I think there will be.
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Well I call myself the impatient optimist, because I want things to go faster.
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"So now we have two really beautiful little parakeets," Kunis said, forever the optimist.
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Obama's an Optimist and You Should Be, Too(Jim Watson / Getty Images) Dear Backchannelers,
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Well, either that, or attempting to one-up the other, but I'm an optimist!
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My Ryder is a wild optimist because how could he not be wildly optimistic?
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They described Kostial as an eternal optimist who always saw the best in everyone.
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"I'm a big tech optimist and this country does believe in innovation," he said.
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If nothing else, that's what perpetual optimist Kimmy would want us to think, right?
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Book Entry Adam Grant is a serious social scientist, master storyteller and infectious optimist.
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Ever the optimist, Meek thinks he's well on his way to do just that.
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Still, the sassy optimist preferred living in America to her homeland of Puerto Rico.
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Perhaps the "Oracle of Omaha" should be rechristened as the Optimist of Omaha instead.
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Techno-optimist prognosticators will tell you that driverless trucks are just around the corner.
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The Optimist Harshit Tibrewal, 123, is a software engineer working for a start-up.
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But I don't think you can be an optimist unless you're realistic about people.
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"I'm angry, but I'm ready to fight back because I'm an optimist," Warren said.
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But like the optimist I am, I must point out that all isn't lost.
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"Our geographical position is privileged," insists the governor, who calls herself a "natural optimist".
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"I am a congenital optimist," Collins said in announcing her decision Friday in Maine.
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A self-described "cynical optimist," Pound surveys the landscape — or is it a wasteland?
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"Optimist in Black" is not necessarily my favorite song, but is the most personal.
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"A sportsman always is an optimist," Mr. Khan, a former cricket star, told reporters.
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Trump, ever the optimist, brushed off the dismal fundraising numbers in a statement Tuesday.
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That being said, I describe myself as a techno-optimist, not a techno-utopian.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have an optimist in the White House once again?
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I'm not being a naïve optimist or saying that everything will be a success.
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"I've been an eternal optimist on every campaign I've ever worked on," Mollenkof said.
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Science Times at 40 The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist.
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Sajwani, ever the optimist, still sees a bright future for the country he loves.
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Nevertheless I, a cock-eyed optimist I suppose, believe in the America I knew.
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Add electrically powered vehicles to the mix and an optimist might say, "problem solved".
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PETER MCNAUGHTON, a professor of pharmacology at King's College London, is a devoted optimist.
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"It might not seem like it at first, but I'm an optimist," Lanier writes.
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I'm an optimist by experience and by nature, and I'm optimistic about the country.
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"I'm an optimist and I'm hoping to see that in my lifetime," she said.
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John seemed the grumpiest of men, but in key ways he was an optimist.
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That's because Khaled, while an optimist, is also a pragmatist and a true friend.
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That's where I'm glad to be an optimist about the price of energy storage.
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A heady feeling of techno-optimist excitement mixed with apocalyptic fear peaked that year.
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Late last year, the man who calls himself an "impatient optimist" broadened his energy quest.
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Do you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to the environment?
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He was an eternal optimist, a champion of America as an example to the world.
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An optimist will say he's steadily maturing into life as a more refined floor general.
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The optimist in me wanted this to be a highlight of my 2016 moviegoing year.
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Some people might look at me as an optimist, but yes, I suppose I am.
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He's an optimist, and goes to great lengths to make clear how grateful he is.
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Elon Musk is an optimist: There is no better time to be alive, Musk says.
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But Johnson remains an optimist, maintaining that the best is still ahead for the market.
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This bouncy, cliché-mangling optimist desperately wants Dorothea to marry her (never seen) twin brother.
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Be the eternal optimist who is excited to see what the next decade will bring.
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Would you say that you still are an optimist, if you have to categorize yourself?
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But I don't mean [a] sort of witless optimist [that] everything will work out regardless.
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At a cafe in Greenfield (population 1,800), he met with the Adair County Optimist Club.
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With that as my heritage, how can I not be an optimist about our future?
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I'm an optimist; going through those things, I know nothing can put my light out.
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Mr. Melendez, an optimist who has worked 17 years for Gucci, was blessed, he said.
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I think they recognize -- DAVID FABER: You've always been an optimist, and it's worked out.
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"I'm a natural optimist, and I can't even get to the silver lining," Jenna says.
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The candidate himself, a congenital optimist, expects America's readiness to take in refugees to return.
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After shocking the world with his victory, Trump has become by nature a political optimist.
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I am an activist, a feminist and a fighter because I am a forever optimist.
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It would be a peculiarly insouciant optimist who thought we should just wait and see.
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"Engineer's pessimism is what's at play; the question is who's right" — the pessimist or the optimist.
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She's a true optimist, even if she is self-critical, she makes every day a celebration.
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"He said that he was a short-term pessimist but a long-term optimist," Page says.
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" The actor went on to say that she's an "optimist" and believes "lasting change is possible.
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Deutch's performance turns Madison into a natural, possibly accidental optimist who's more endearing than the leads.
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Pleshkov, who calls himself an optimist, says he fears the region's best times are behind it.
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But whereas Reagan was an optimist, Mr Trump rails against the loss of an imagined past.
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Shape spoke with experts on the subject to learn how to be a more realistic optimist.
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" Apple CEO Tim Cook is an optimist, Kudlow added "[Cook] is in touch with us constantly.
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And I am still enough of an optimist to say that's probably how things will go.
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Sorry for being an optimist, but I have more faith in the human race than that.
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Now he's grown, a relentless optimist who knows a bit about finding magic in the everyday.
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Likelihood: Call me an optimist, but I think this is the most likely outcome of all.
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An optimist would point out that there's pretty much nowhere to go but up for Cleveland.
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He was an eternal optimist, willing to bet the ranch on a business he believed in.
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Those challenges are still real enough that even a clean energy optimist like me gets nervous.
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But Case is fundamentally an App Store optimist: selling software has always been hard, he says.
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"I am a huge optimist that technology will do far more good than bad," he said.
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With "Optimist in Black," her first album, which arrives this week, she is having her say.
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I have always been an optimist in both my personal life and in my financial life.
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My older son actually gave me a necklace that says "Eternal Optimist," which is really true.
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The constant experimentation changed Mr. Goldsmith into a self-described "radical optimist" about the internet, too.
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While this currently rests with the federal courts, as a pediatric transplant surgeon, I'm an optimist.
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"I'm an optimist: I believe that there is an endless supply of huge problems affecting humanity."
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Think of a sailboat with three people aboard: a pessimist, an optimist, and a great leader.
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"I'm an optimist on infrastructure legislation," Greg Louer, managing director at Arnold & Porter, told The Hill.
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I am an optimist about the future of humanity and life on our planet and beyond.
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This is where I am not a chronic optimist, as some people expect me to be.
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I've adjusted my view of the net to this extent: I was and remain an optimist.
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"I'm always an optimist," said Ms. Steyerl, whose even most critical works contain glimmers of hope.
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But that's like the joke about the optimist who's fallen out of a 100-story building.
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In those grim times, when your father died and during boarding school, were you an optimist?
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"I'm fairly confident, but I'm always an optimist, that they will get it ratified," he said.
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Though Gibson's older work is frequently described as dystopian, he used to consider himself an optimist.
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"I am the optimist economist," he said, despite what seems like a dire prediction to parents.
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Now, let's get real: Being an optimist doesn't mean you ignore the stress of daily life.
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I'm a bit of an internal optimist so I try to keep things light and positive.
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The optimist in me would say that if anybody can make a difference, it's probably Atul.
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But I'm an optimist; I think we'll begin to see multifactorial approaches as the program matures.
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How do you distinguish a foreign policy "idealist" from a "realist," an optimist from a pessimist?
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I believe — because you wouldn't know it but I'm an optimist — that ... KS: You are, Peter.
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"I am an optimist and hope we will return one day, before too long," he wrote.
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If you ask me if I'm worried, I'm worried but I'm a bit more of an optimist.
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So I tend also for France to be much more to the optimist than the pessimist side.
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For instance, graphologists might notice that your handwriting slopes upward, which suggests you may be an optimist.
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"It's still the early afternoon—I'm an optimist," Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, the Prime Minister of Latvia, said.
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"I'm a big optimist on technology," Luckey said Thursday from the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon.
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Even in the most difficult hours, he remained an optimist about the prospects for reconciliation and peace.
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As befits a paranoid optimist, his broad hopes for the future are also tied up with fears.
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You know, the optimist in me sees political risk as being something that ultimately policymakers can resolve.
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Youssef Chahine — The Last Arab Optimist screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato from June 23–June 26, 2019.
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Again, here's Kahneman: Whenever you look at a great success you are likely to find an optimist.
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She lost to the young black optimist and now she has lost to the old white negativist.
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Captain AmericaChris Evans plays the titular, unstoppable optimist who serves as an ideological opposite to Tony Stark.
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Maybe you can't tell, but as someone who works in emerging battery technology, I'm actually an optimist.
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No one appears as silly and ridiculous as the optimist amid a crisis — even a faux crisis.
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This optimist pot is sure to inspire some creativity as well as good feelings about the future.
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But Kasich refused to engage in the melee, positioning himself as the high-minded optimist on stage.
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The optimist in us wants to proffer that these statistics suggest a so-called flight to quality.
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"Stay strong, my brother," adds DJ Iz. "You'll rip 'em next time," adds Sol, always the optimist.
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He's a Christian, an optimist, and a leader—this is called the "Be Encouraged" tour, after all.
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"Despite the downbeat philosophical atmosphere permeating Blade Runner, I'm an optimist about the future," he told Sammon.
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"I see him as in many ways heroic, a romantic and optimist, a great survivor," she writes.
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A pessimistic optimist would say: Well, damn, this is how we save the world from climate change.
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We might add they&aposd make a great stocking stuffer for the impatient optimist in your life.
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I am a crazy optimist and I don't know anyone who sets higher standards than I do.
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"I'm an optimist," said Dr. Jennifer Vines, the deputy health officer for the Multnomah County Health Department.
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What matters to Link is Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Maddie Baillio) – the energetic optimist as the center of Hairspray.
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Nonetheless, I arrive at the doctor's office ever the optimist that they might take me seriously this time.
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It's colorful and funny, and will make you feel like an optimist for 45 minutes at a time.
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When big political forces put walls in the way of progress, let's foster our inner stubborn climate optimist.
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But I remain an eternal optimist, and I'll keep watching, hoping I'll find another world to delve into.
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Though he admits that he has grown "even more pessimistic" watching the Trump presidency, he is an optimist.
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His father was self-employed his whole life, and is the same optimist dreamer that Robbie is now.
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Like Dan Lyons in Disrupted Garcia Martinez is an optimist turned cynic by the vagaries of startup life.
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Vice President Mike Pence is still an optimist about the Senate's prospects for getting a health care deal.
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I love an optimist as much as the next person, but I am more concerned with making money.
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Trump, ever the optimist, tweeted on Saturday evening that he thinks things are looking great for the GOP.
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Her response was the title track on "Optimist in Black," an elliptical ode to those who have gone.
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"I try to be an optimist," Jacob Huh, a chilled-out grad student in Efros's lab, told me.
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The opinions expressed here are his own.) By John Lloyd Nov 18 (Reuters) - I'm a Donald Trump optimist.
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Logic is an unrepentant optimist, an up-by-his-bootstraps teacher's pet who espouses the gospel of positivity.
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On this Fourth of July, if you want to be an optimist about America, stand on your head.
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Topol is certainly an optimist about the power of AI to make things better — even about personalized diets.
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Although this can seem like a curse of sorts, to a creative optimist like me it's a blessing.
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"I'm a bit of an optimist so it doesn't tend to occur to me to resign," he replied.
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The researchers also found that Cameron was an optimist, with the lowest score on a common anxiety scale.
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Legendary venture capitalist Fred Wilson calls himself an optimist, but his first prediction for the 2020s sounds bleak.
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His faith in technological progress is, unusually for Silicon Valley, explicitly tinged with darkness: he is a paranoid optimist.
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First off, Buffett is a die-hard, long-term optimist on the U.S. economy and on stocks in general.
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I believe not, because I am an optimist and I have confidence in the essential goodness of most people.
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There's an old joke about an optimist who fell off of the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
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Less compelling are the ra-ra-feminism moments that make Ruth out to be some kind of perky optimist.
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Sure, he claims to be an optimist about humanity's ingenuity in coming up with ways to control the dangers.
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The optimist might argue that with all the code being committed to the effort, it's only five years away.
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"I'm not a pessimist, I'm a data-driven optimist," said Martin Green from the University of New South Wales.
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In answer to concerns about the impact AI may have on job losses, Levie said he is an optimist.
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"Playing that optimist and that pessimist and knowing that right balance at all times is really hard," says Tilenius.
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Either she's the Housewives' biggest fan and knows what that would bring to the show, or she's an optimist.
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They reject the finding by some researchers that people are set early as either an optimist or a pessimist.
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"Remember: It could be worse!" my 92-year-old grandmother, Titi—holocaust survivor and eternal optimist—has always said.
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"For an optimist, I'm a cynic on this issue — Republicans have already succeeded by making it yesterday's news," Rep.
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Griffin was known as a scientific optimist who regularly called for "disruptive innovation" and who prized speed above all.
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About 850 of them compete in the annual Optimist World Championship, which will be held next month in Antigua.
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It's not your job to turn your brother into an optimist, or to orchestrate his reconciliation with your parents.
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"Despite the challenges we face, I remain an optimist," Mr. Murphy said as he laid out an ambitious agenda.
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"So the optimist thinks there's at least 12 more we think we can get," Breyer said on Capitol Hill.
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Even though that's down 10 percentage points from the 2016 survey, majorities across all groups say they're an optimist.
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty," Churchill famously said.
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And this book is not merely the cri de coeur of a forsworn tech optimist zinged by moral conscience.
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They assume it's not their ... DF: One of my problems, as a reporter, is that I'm basically an optimist.
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I mean, I assume I probably wouldn't get elected if I wasn't, but I genuinely am a technology optimist.
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He is an optimist who is also a realist and a skeptic and has done a fantastic job at PLAY.
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An optimist will tell you Meerkat has a fighting chance, but Ello and Beme have quietly faded into the distance.
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It's almost like this old joke about the optimist who thinks that we live in the best of all worlds.
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He was a charismatic storyteller and an unfailing optimist, despite all the obstacles and inconveniences of shooting movies in Nigeria.
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Respondents were characterized with five different payment personas: The Autopilot, The Points Person, The Tracker, The Optimist, and The Juggler.
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Mario Diaz-Balart is a Republican, the son of Cuban exiles and a perennial optimist in finding centrist immigration consensus.
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I'm more than a little scared, but also an optimist for the following reasons: First, a fascist leader needs fascists.
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Optimist, salesman, bully: We looked at the wildly diverse roles Mr. Trump has assumed during his first year in office.
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"I guess that shows that I'm an optimist about the institution, and its possibilities," he said, to the guests' delight.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Like any good teacher, Fuchs is an optimist, and she believes that her next group of students will do better.
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But as Puerto Rico's Secretary of Education, I'm determined to be that eternal optimist for the students of our island.
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"I am a posibilista ," Almodóvar told me repeatedly, a word that can mean both a practical person and an optimist.
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She counsels burned-out friends to read Ms. Trump's self-help tips ("Find strength in others" and "Be an optimist").
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I'm an optimist, but time is running out, and we need to address this now, not next year or later.
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So perhaps it's no surprise that that 86-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg considers herself an optimist.
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On top of that, such systems can evade proper scrutiny by giving a sleek techno-optimist cover to bad ideas.
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" Louis, ever the optimist to Jessica's pragmatist, counters that "if we don't enjoy what we have, we don't have anything.
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They say he was an eternal optimist, a visionary who helped revolutionize an industry and shape the city he called home.
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Here's what he said in the Guardian: I remain a stubborn optimist about the progressive potential to society of technological innovation.
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The British documentarist sees himself as an optimist amid dystopians, and as a classical journalist whose medium happens to be film.
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"I think I'm like Tracy in the fact that she's the ultimate optimist," Baillio told reporters of the upcoming musical reprise.
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You may not consider yourself to be an optimist or know how to get people to shine when they're feeling down.
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The optimist in me, the one I felt wither the moment "glioblastoma" was first uttered, had prevented me from considering it.
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I, the eternal optimist, thought I could hunt it down without my phone and so I left it behind to charge.
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As an unshakable optimist, Simon Sinek has many ideas about how we, as a society, can build a brighter future together.
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Although the special has the very pessimistic title of A Speck Of Dust, the videos prove Silverman is secretly an optimist.
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I remain an optimist — in the long term, anyway — because of and not despite what I've learned about being an adult.
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"I'm the eternal optimist and I'm hoping we'll get something this week — the votes are being counted as we talk," Rep.
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Call him the eternal optimist ... but Jim Brown says he sincerely believes the Cleveland Browns can turn things around next year.
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I see the signs of the normalization of death, and that worries me, but even in these times I'm an optimist.
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You call yourself a "techno-optimist" despite writing two books about all the ways in which human life can be annihilated.
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He also became known as Mr. Cub, the optimist who endured one losing season after another and still hoped for better.
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An adviser to Mr. Lauder denied he was pushing an alliance with Mr. Abbas, but described Mr. Lauder as an optimist.
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Nixon was a pessimist who liked to brood alone with a bottle of whisky, whereas Mr Johnson is a gregarious optimist.
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An optimist might think that our society is headed toward a serious reevaluation of how we define and deal with transgression.
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I actually am enough of a techo-optimist that I think you can shape it in a way that's very positive.
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Disclaimer: Anshu Sharma is an investor in PubNub, a former executive at Salesforce and an all around unapologetic optimist on public cloud.
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It would be a very farsighted optimist, sporting the strongest of rose-tinted shades, who could believe that Trump might learn something.
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One has to be a supreme optimist to believe that the Chinese government is anywhere near to having the coronavirus under control.
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The self-described optimist said he's confident that Universal will be able to live up to a bar that's higher than ever.
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Mr Stiglitz: I'm a Midwestern optimist—a position that is perhaps hard to maintain in the face of what has been occurring.
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Despite dark, cinematic visions of a future hijacked by algorithms, I am an optimist that AI and data can contribute to society.
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And if you're a real optimist, and believe that it's 100 percent as it comes off, I want you to believe that.
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Ever the optimist, he continues to sit opposite the emergency exit on the off-chance the doors will be flung open again.
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Despite the gloom those malls and a massive wave of store closures have cast on the mall industry, Maloney remains an optimist.
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But I&aposm just and maybe because I&aposm a naive optimist, I really do believe the American system works over time.
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So I remain an optimist, as I see lawmaker after lawmaker learn, engage, and reach that same conclusion: development and diplomacy matters.
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"I will continue to be an optimist" And the Wachowskis' latest project, the original Netflix series Sense8, deals directly with trans issues.
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Before the GED-clad optimist can make a decision about college, she needs to figure out what exactly she's going to study.
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Ever the optimist, Kolanovic identified a "once in a decade opportunity" that savvy investors should be able to use to their advantage.
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An optimist might call TN Together and the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma the start of meaningful efforts to resolve the opioid crisis.
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And yet despite fully meeting the textbook definition of "the opposite of an optimist," I've never thought to label myself a pessimist.
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"All of the secrets are coming out already," said Sara Rashid, serving at Optimist Coffee, a busy downtown cafe in Kuala Lumpur.
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"Hobbesian optimist," though it might not immediately seem it, is, to me, the best articulation yet of how Obama sees the world.
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An optimist, however, might say the government is trying to warn users to prevent mass damage if an exploit is used or published.
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"Sam, being the pure-blooded optimist that he is, took my word for it that [wiring a live volcano] is possible," Nordell says.
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An optimist might reckon it only a bit less friendly than Antarctica, a place that does play host to a permanent human presence.
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But at 18 years old, Lake won the starring role of plus-size optimist Tracy Turnblad in John Waters's 1988 hit film Hairspray.
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Chris Rock isn't exactly known for being the world's biggest optimist, but his take on Trump in his Netflix special was surprisingly upbeat.
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The optimist would correctly applaud Obama for improving the disastrous economy he inherited after the financial crash from the George W. Bush years.
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And Mr. Grisham deserves credit for dependability: He is at heart an optimist who believes that wrongs can be ferreted out and righted.
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Call me a deluded optimist, but I'll never lose faith in young people's ability to find ways to get drunk and fuck around.
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Growing up during the Depression, in which her father suffered while my family prospered, she became a skeptic while I emerged an optimist.
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I'm not saying we're dead and we're done, but we might be, which as an optimist, I have never been inclined to think.
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My inner cynic cringed, but the optimist in me loved them, as I knew they signified a social shift toward acceptance and visibility.
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I resonated with him so much with that — his constant optimism — because I am for sure an optimist too and love for running.
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But the Italian-born Dr. Gianotti is known as an unwavering optimist who also knows how to sell science to a general audience.
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He was also an optimist: Alarmed by his wife's volatility, he trusted in her poised, cool-headed mother to keep her in check.
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When it comes to the big picture, I am an optimist about the future of humanity and life on our planet and beyond.
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The optimist would point out that Kyrie Irving only played 33 minutes of his freshman year of college and blossomed into a star.
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Sandler himself has — not inaccurately — described Howard as selfish, but the character is also a cockeyed optimist, a dreamer, the quintessential American striver.
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"The Rational Optimist," first published in 2010, is the most popular and perhaps the most controversial of popular-science writer Matt Ridley's books.
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Check out nine science-backed ways to immediately boost your mood, and read why billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he's such an optimist.
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An "optimist," as he defined it in a few speeches, will try to stare reality in the face and see only the good things.
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Even if you have doubts about this, channel your inner optimist and come across as being focused on achieving solutions, not pointing out problems.
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"It is very conceivable the receipt meant to say 'And split it in two' since he was there with his kids," one optimist wrote.
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But, ever the optimist, I continued to date, wary of guys who would tell me they just wanted casual sex right off the bat.
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"I'm not a big optimist on European banking stocks," Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg, the founder of New York-based Spitzberg Partners, told CNBC Monday.
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Even now, with his achievements on the line, he remains that indefatigable optimist -- expressing hope that some of Trump's nominees, including retired Marine Gen.
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As an eternal optimist and problem-solver, your instinct on that investment will be based more on gut feelings than facts and financial projections.
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Wheeler, again the pure-of-heart optimist, says that all cable companies would have to do to fix that problem is, you know, compete.
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An optimist could at least say that the Browns are trying to unearth the sort of candidate that could do these sorts of things.
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Today's new moon in Gemini sucks, but you're the optimist of the zodiac, so you'll find a way to make it work for you.
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Where: Wednesday, July 5: California City Council Chambers, Co-Mo Electric Operations Facility, Morgan County Library, Eldon Community Center, and then Ashland Optimist Club.
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But as a practical Republican and stubborn optimist — not an easy feat in the current climate — I figure a little wishful thinking can't hurt.
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Pity the poor optimist who was hoping to see Joe Biden or Kamala Harris tested on a core component of the job they're seeking.
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" While an optimist might read that statement as non-committal — "Yeah, we'll promise shipments through the end of 2017 and who knows about 2018??
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But I am an optimist, and I think when people are clever enough and learn how to apply AI, it can be very helpful.
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Many people are somewhat taken aback when they find out that really I am an idealist, and an optimist about where we are heading.
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Janson, ever the optimist, is suddenly reminded of another possible shared frame of reference, only to lead Lauer down another rabbit hole of bickering.
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Like The Optimist, The Heart of Infinite Change was released on World Galaxy records, an imprint of the largely electronic music label Alpha Pup.
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Despite this and other problems, Zuckerberg said he remains an optimist, pointing to the France, which had a drug epidemic problem a decade ago.
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My optimist father used to say that the Chinese character for "crisis" contained the word "opportunity," but I've since learned that he was wrong.
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" It makes sense then that P.O.S. would give a shout-out to Triple Double Tuesdays, Triple Rock's weekly DJ night, in his song "Optimist.
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"The election is a last solution as it would mean losing time, although I'm optimist even in the case of new election," Karamarko said.
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Kaku is a techno-optimist, as he has shown in his previous books on the future of physics and the future of the mind.
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These are not good signs, but Mr. Markey, ever the optimist, thinks there is no better time to put forth aggressive ambitions and solutions.
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They were the kind of ambitious ideas that you can see energizing a relatively young, hopeful optimist who's about to be out of a job.
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This warm sense of nostalgia flowed from the pews into the eulogies, where the late president was remembered by his son as a true optimist.
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"I'm ever the optimist so I do have great faith and confidence, even though they are under assault, in our basic institutions," Clapper told reporters.
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Mr Wrangham is also an optimist, and even posits a counterintuitive role for certain types of pugnacity in keeping humans on the path towards good.
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The one I was closer with was an optimist about everything—each performance was "amazing," there were lots of fake-ass tears of joy, etc.
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An optimist could argue that, historically, it is big political realignments that overturn trade-policy regimes, rather than the rogue actions of consensus-bucking presidents.
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I'm not pessimistic or negative—in fact I am an eternal optimist—but I like the way how, say, Tsipras changed his tack in Greece.
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She cherishes life and is an eternal optimist, believing in hope and love, even though she's seen a lifetime's worth of evil in her adventures.
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"I'm always an optimist that where there's a will there's a way and I believe both presidents want to get something good done," Kudlow said.
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Will John Kasich's unorthodox approach to the nomination — he is an optimist, after all — fit in with a previously unknown zeitgeist of the voting public?
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An optimist might say Obama did some good things, which is true, which historians will give him some credit for, even if Republicans do not.
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With neighboring Libya in turmoil, and the border notoriously porous, only the most blinkered optimist would guarantee that there may not be more to come.
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Synthetic beef -- in vitro chuck grown from stem cells -- is the first step in what an optimist could see becoming a cascade of restorative effects.
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Protectionist optimist: Trump is now marching to the beat of his own drummer more than ever before, and that drummer thinks trade wars are good.
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Though The Optimist didn't cause a media earthquake quite as cataclysmic as the one triggered by The Epic, its brilliance is nothing short of scintillating.
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But I am a "realistic optimist" and a technologist, and I see the advancing pace of technology development as a positive signal for the market.
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But the struggle to keep the Liberty City Optimist Club up and running as an annual resource for a community that needs it is constant.
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Cooperman said he considered himself "an uninformed optimist," but said investors who take a more bearish view on the coronavirus' economic impact should respond accordingly.
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Though he described himself as an optimist, he couldn't see how Australia would be able to create enough employment for the next generations coming up.
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"It's so easy to see the explosive nature of it," says Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter, the job-search site — and an outspoken drone optimist.
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Faubert, who is 57 and bald, with dark, prominent eyebrows and white hair buzzed tightly at the sides, is an evergreen optimist with charismatic energy.
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But Mr. Peters remains an optimist, believing that salvation is still possible if the country returns to the true faith of his New Deal youth.
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"I am an optimist and hope we will return one day, before too long," Scott Hamilton, the top American official in Cuba, wrote on Facebook.
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Zuck's an optimist, so the kinds of things in the early days ... Talking about Zuck, look, we can connect people and they can share experiences.
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If you're an optimist, then the Earth conveniently healed itself after only a few years of catastrophe (by that logic, global warming is nothing to fear).
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"I believe in the goodness of man, I am an optimist," Clooney said in a live stage interview at the gala, held in the Carr Theatre.
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I'm definitely an optimist and I think we will have a much better understanding of the Indus script one way or the other, linguistic or not.
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The disease itself is still there Yes, an optimist might say that ISIS is on the run and that at least that challenge is being addressed.
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Related: The Health Benefits Of Being An Optimist Vs. A PessimistFor starters, always have a plan — that way, you'll always have something to look forward to.
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"The younger generation of the world has turned me into an optimist... They have the solutions to some of the world&aposs biggest problems," he said.
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Being an optimist, he told Time, "means you're inspired to look for people making progress on those fronts, and to help spread that progress more widely."
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Plaza plays his friend Lenny, a drug and alcohol abuser with "the likeable energy of the impossible optimist despite her rough demeanor," according to a release.
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While Dean considers herself an optimist, she is honest about the multiple steps — and therapy sessions — it took to make peace with some of her struggles.
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The optimist in us wants to believe that, once the crew made it past the wormhole, Walton at least got deleted, finally released from his suffering.
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The optimist in me likes to think that, considering these songs were written with a specific purpose in mind, at least some of them must deliver.
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And precisely, I am an optimist, this is a game we can win, but we have to dig into it, we have to work at it.
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"As an optimist media artist I highly believe using machine intelligence can deeply create completely new meaningful, purposeful and impactful ways of thinking methodologies," tells Anadol.
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As Mr. Flinn notes below, I liked seeing GAVE IT ANOTHER GO sitting on top of ETERNAL OPTIMIST, as well as THE GREEN LANTERN and MISAPPROPRIATES.
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But Rostov is an optimist: The cramped room will at the very least keep him away from the Bolsheviks below, clacking out directives on their typewriters.
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AND, YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS AN OPTIMIST THAT WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY, AND I BELIEVE BOTH PRESIDENTS WANT TO GET SOMETHING GOOD DONE.
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"I am essentially an optimist so I am seeing this as an opportunity for people to show up the day after he was inaugurated," Gere said.
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But Doeleman was an optimist and a romantic, and he saw that the same technological progress behind the iPod would soon transform high-frequency radio astronomy.
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Frei — an incurable optimist — is sure that Uber's culture can be redeemed and repaired, and that the company will become as beloved as it is necessary.
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Each one is a familiar archetype: SpongeBob is the eternal optimist, always energized and full of love and excitement for the world in front of him.
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His latest is BeetleCat in Inman Park, a little sister to the Optimist, the sophisticated seafood place that Esquire named the nation's best new restaurant in 2012.
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Social Democrat chief Jan Hamacek said after Thursday's meeting with the president, also attended by Babis, that he was "no longer an optimist" that Zeman would act.
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Naysayers may have had their doubts as the Chicago Cubs headed into the 2016 Major League Baseball World Series, but superfan Bill Murray was ever the optimist.
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If pushed, a hopeless optimist might make a medium-term case for China, if it can avoid an all-out trade war with America in the meantime.
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"I'm an optimist by nature so I think there's a very good chance we will work something out with them," Ross said about a deal with Europe.
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After six years with little progress, the optimist in me wanted to see some change — a movement, a brief flash of empathy, something other than abject selfishness.
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But that correction doesn't have to be painful, at least according to the island's resident optimist Carlota Maranon, a Spanish lawyer who settled here a decade ago.
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But being an eternal optimist who sees the silver lining in every iCloud, she seems largely unperturbed by just how much YouTube has altered her daily life.
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I just wanted to say it out loud as an Apple optimist; Apple can't rest on its laurels and the marketplace will not wait forever for innovation.
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I am an optimist, though, and history has shown us that new technologies, on balance, have been incredibly good for society measured by productivity, wellness and equality.
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"The optimist in me is saying there's a pathway for coexistence here in an otherwise challenging landscape," said Dr. Carter, an assistant professor at Boise State University.
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That is, are you generally an optimist, someone who tends to see the positive sides of situations — or a pessimist, someone who more often sees the negative?
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To become a realistic optimist, the author suggests you not only maintain a positive outlook, but also run an honest assessment of the challenges you might face.
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"A few weeks ago I was an optimist and I thought that removing the chlorided oil from the system would take half a year," Wasilewski told reporters.
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KASICH: You see, ladies and gentlemen, at the end of the day, I'm an optimist (BELL RINGS) Because I've seen so many things get accomplished in my lifetime.
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Seeing herself as a "tech candidate", this self-styled "rabble rousing optimist" believes we are just at the "dawn of the revolution" when it comes to political innovation.
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There are also elements of the new Sonos Beam that aren't ready for launch or, if you're a Sonos optimist, need a few more months to shake out.
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Even the President, forever the vote-counting optimist in public and at various points convinced he could sway Paul, seemed resigned to things during a Monday radio interview.
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Dr. Gore calls himself "an optimist" and points to positive trends in earth management: cheaper solar power, cleaner air and water in some places, tigers rebounding in others.
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The first episode established Shirley (Cindy Williams) as the optimist of the duo, quoting the song "High Hopes" and insisting that better times were just around the corner.
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" When I ask how hands on he is with the optimist club today, he balances his elbow on the table and starts counting off three fingers. "Family. Business.
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It is West, ultimately, who is the optimist here, who still believes in America's redemption, who is calling for policy changes that are supported by major American politicians.
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Zuckerberg, whose project last year was building a Jarvis-style A.I. butler for his home, likes to paint himself as an optimist and Musk as a doomsday prophet.
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Sir Tim Clark, Emirates' president and founding member of the carrier, is a well-known optimist but the past year has taken its toll on the airline veteran.
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She calls herself an optimist early on, but her peppy charisma has hints of melancholy, an undercurrent that emerges more explicitly when she talks about divorce and dating.
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QMA is a business of Prudential Financial and its managing director Ed Keon, a frequent guest on CNBC, has been a long-time optimist about the stock market.
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"He threw up to 120 feet (on Saturday) and we're optimist that he is going to get on the mound in a day or two," manager Andy Green said.
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Russian tycoon Deripaska described himself as a "reasonable optimist" for the future of Trump's presidency and highlighted the New York businessman's ambitious infrastructure plans as reason to be positive.
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The Pathological Optimist is a provocative look at how Wakefield became a martyr — and how he still manages to bring in donations, even after his work has been discredited.
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Everybody knows that these peace talks are going to happen, and I'm not an optimist on the peace negotiations, but Pakistan has to really be pushing them [the Taliban].
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Today, with Israel's right now in control of the government, Peres the optimist might have been able to detect a silver lining in something that came after his death.
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"Maybe I'm naive or an optimist, but I really do believe that there's going to be major change, that there won't be this type of behavior anymore," he said.
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You're an optimist, Sagittarius, which helps you stay strong during eclipse season—an emotional, exhausting time when we're tested, secrets are revealed, and major endings (and beginnings!) take place.
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You are the optimist of the zodiac, but even you will be in a downer mood—harness the energy by focusing on work instead of forcing yourself to party.
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If you're an optimist, it's also possible that Sophie didn't even know about the note, and that she didn't know her name was being associated with something so mean.
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The optimist in me is a little bummed by this because if we divorce the word from the branded content, I am proud of the queers in my life.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have a testy history of disagreeing about the potential for artificial intelligence, with Zuckerberg as the optimist and Musk as the prophet of doom.
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Being an optimist, I sincerely do hope that these trials work out and policy is created that gives more money to people who need it, for purely practical reasons.
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The reason I am an optimist with regard to the outstanding problems is that increasing wealth and knowledge have solved problems before—we haven't had to dismantle industrialized society.
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BUT AS I SAID, AGAIN, I'M AN OPTIMIST ABOUT NAFTA MERELY BEING UPDATED, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A SITUATION WHERE NAFTA IS GOING TO EXPLODE.
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But there are also capitalist quips on tees, like "Gender-Phluid" in the style of the Chick-fil-A logo, and "Optimist" in the style of the Supreme logo.
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Gary Smith, 46, and Sharyce "Reesey" McElvane, 37, Lanham, Md. Usually, McElvane considers herself the optimist of the couple, who have this month suffered a double-whammy of layoffs.
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Ever the optimist (and realist), Kristen encouraged me to spend time on my more solitary hobbies — mountain biking and preserving the bones of animals — but I just wasn't interested.
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"The first optimist in me feels it's a bluff, the second feels it will pass very quickly and the third hopes it will result in new discoveries," he said.
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I am a concerned optimist because the changes we spend in front of are very significant and got to make sure that people get a chance to get change.
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And maybe because I was a child raised on "Star Wars" — which was once, hard as it now is to remember, a risky new creation — I'm still an optimist.
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Vic Gundotra calls himself an "eternal optimist" and says he loves what he has worked on — starting at Microsoft, then at Google and now at health-tech startup AliveCor.
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It's hard right now, Steve, to see how much of this is going to be sustained, but sort of put me in the camp of being an optimist on this.
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Or put another way, barely better odds than having your name randomly pulled from a hat filled with the names of everyone in the US. But you're an optimist, right?
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In contrast, a wary optimist would argue that odds are in favor of positive progress, but only if political destabilization can be avoided at home and trilateral cooperation prevails regionally.
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"I've called Melinda an impatient optimist and that's what she delivers here — the urgency to tackle these problems and the unwavering belief that solving them is indeed possible," Obama writes.
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In recent months, George, ever an optimist, had grown worried about the safety of the program and the people to whom he'd committed the last 11 years of his life.
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As a biologist and an optimist, Buckland wanted to find a new source of protein to help the world avoid the Malthusian doom that had been predicted a generation before.
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RFM: Okay, so are you more of a SpongeBob, a Squidward, a Sandy, a Mr. Krabs...FC: I'm a realistic optimist, which I don't think fits any of those characters.
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Being ever an optimist, I am confident that even the government cannot forever stand in the way of an entrepreneurial transformation that consumers and the marketplace are so clearly demanding.
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"I'm a desperate optimist, and I very much hope and pray that there will be a deal between the European Union and the UK," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
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Amid his contentious encounters with Israel over the years, Obama counted on backing from Peres, a like-minded optimist who was similarly often viewed more favorably abroad than at home.
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At 18 years old, Lake won the starring role of the plus-size optimist in Waters' cult film and inspired a young Winokur to go for a career in Hollywood.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk made headlines last week when he tweeted about his frustrations that Mark Zuckerberg, ever the optimist, doesn't fully understand the potential danger posed by artificial intelligence.
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Predrag Azdejkovic, editor-in-chief of the only gay magazine, Optimist, in Serbia, gave a recent newspaper interview insisting on the use of the word lesbian when describing Brnabič's sexuality.
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The optimist in me has always believed that she knew her son would make it and that, until her last breath, all of her attention was focused on protecting Frieda.
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"I'm a techno-optimist and yet, so many of these tech companies we thought were going to connect people turned out to have accidentally made people more lonely," she said.
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Strange but true: This self-proclaimed optimist worships at the altar of that ultimate equivocator Stephen Sondheim and is also a passionate devotee of Fred Rogers, the beloved children's entertainer.
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Describing himself as an optimist despite his dyspeptic view of Russia and its leaders, he said he learned long ago to never lose hope, or let officials get him down.
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The optimist in me says hopefully there will be a chance for storytellers and filmmakers of all backgrounds to have shots at telling their stories who might not have otherwise.
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" But Tumble is an eternal optimist: "Her parents had taken her life and given it a good hard shake, but that didn't mean Tumble was going to fall to pieces.
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When I wasn't working out to that, I was watching "Harold and Maude" [about a suicidal young man and an elderly woman who is an optimist] over and over again.
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I'm no cockeyed optimist, but I've long believed that how I eat and exercise, as well as how I view the world, can benefit my mental and physical well-being.
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Still, an optimist like Mr. Hill, who died in 1970, might take heart in one data point from Wealth-X: More than half of the world's billionaires are self-made.
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I am an optimist, by the way -- JIM CRAMER: But you remember Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin had often indicated that this can work out; that there has been movement.
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The optimist in me hopes games like Destiny 2, particularly modes that leverage cooperation with friends, are passively teaching players, no matter who they are, skills in communication and teamwork.
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"I'm always going to be an optimist, but this time has (allowed) my legs to feel good, my back feels good," Wainwright told reporters after throwing a side session on Wednesday.
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What makes me feel - and I&aposm basically an optimist and I think in the long run, we pretty much always work through these problems, although painful as that working maybe.
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EC: I'm an eternal optimist and I do think that if people can change the way that we communicate and shop and transport ourselves around, they can make this change, too.
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If members of Congress were willing to learn the rules of coalition politics, an optimist might see opportunities for creative politicians to create fresh alliances and solve some intractable policy puzzles.
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The optimist in me would like to believe that there's a scenario where Samsung actually figures out how to make its voice assistant useful and essential instead of just a nuisance.
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But only an extreme optimist can today doubt that North Korea has developed missiles that threaten not just its southern neighbour but also Japan and, soon, the American base on Guam.
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"I'm from Washington so I'm not a blind optimist, but I think one senses a desire in Congress to do something and I hope that will be the case," he said.
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I've found some nice restaurants like JCT Kitchen, which has yummy cocktails and cheese sandwiches, and the Optimist, where the seafood is fresh and there is a mini golf course outside.
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His chronology ends at around 1960, with the general art historical surveys of E.H. Gombrich and H.W. Janson, a pessimist and an optimist respectively about the art of their own times.
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But with the 2018 release of his debut album, The Optimist, he made it irrefutably clear that his top-tier talents extend into the realms of arranging and composing as well.
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But then again he is exactly the guy you want to cross; an amorous optimist, who just wants to find the good with his bullshit headlights switched ON at all times.
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Always described as "laid back" and an "eternal optimist" by those who knew him, he was now quick to anger, especially when his things weren't where he expected them to be.
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What emerges instead is a portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms, as well as a ravenous appetite for the literary efforts of others.
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Blond and creamy-skinned, a painter and an optimist, she's engineered for customers to fall in love with and to want to protect; that impulse carries over to the HBO viewer.
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Mr. Oliver is, by most accounts, an optimist and, by his own account, what the Brits call a grafter — someone who just puts his head down and works, whatever the circumstance.
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Mr. Oliver is, by most accounts, an optimist and, by his own account, what the Brits call a grafter — someone who just puts his head down and works, whatever the circumstance.
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It would have pleased him — the preacherly pessimist, the fit-to-be-tied optimist — to see that although Ms. Gary's piece is titled "An Ecstatic Experience," its contents short-circuit uplift.
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He called himself an "impatient optimist" but acknowledged that transitions in the field of energy were implicitly harder and slower than in sectors like information technology and medicine, where he has experience.
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The original record was created by a committee chaired by the great 20th-century optimist and astronomer Carl Sagan, who also authored a thorough chronicle of the project in Murmurs of Earth.
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I remain, in the face of all the challenges, both a believer and an optimist because I think it will be better for families and for the world — Have we made strides?
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" An optimist at heart, she believes they are well on their way to changing the world: "These kids are not going to listen to adults who say there's nothing you can do.
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But as an optimist in denial, I wondered if perhaps it had to do with the fact that I slept with a fan blowing directly in my face for roughly eight hours.
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It peaked early with this episode, its fourth, in which sunny optimist Leslie Knope and grouchy Ron Swanson get locked in the office overnight and explore the shattered remnants of their friendship.
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But Liz Baillie is an eternal optimist, and this comic serves simultaneously as a love letter and a middle finger to the hard times of growing up gay around 2001 in NYC.
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Nikitopoulos, who has lost 22018 percent of his income since 22019, told CNBC that although he is an optimist, he doesn't think the economic situation of the Greek people will get better.
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But Spajic quickly dispelled doubts about his place in the optimist camp, following up with this point: China's increasing debt is less of a worry if growth continues to outpace borrowing costs.
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Trump may also be wary of the risk that his protectionist war language will dent the optimist economic sentiment and cause the financial markets to switch to risk-off before the midterms.
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Capricorn is a dry, practical sign: You might be an optimist, Sag, but now is the time for you to be more critical about how you're spending your money, time, and energy.
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If you are an optimist, you will argue that moving publications away from an ad-supported model and toward one supported by their consumers is the best way for publishers to survive.
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I'm an optimist in that I believe that the ability of technology to provide a good life for everyone, not just in our countries, but throughout the world, is going to grow.
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Many economists, analysts and executives have pointed to the ongoing U.S.-China trade war as a likely trigger for a global crisis, but James described himself as an "optimist" on that front.
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But slick political skills and his self-image as a Ronald Reagan-style optimist for the 21st Century was a poor fit for the stark Republican mood that brewed Trump's populist nationalism.
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I'm a big fan of Santa Claus – tried to believe in him until I was too old to mention (22 years of age), because beneath the pessimistic exterior, I'm a cockeyed optimist.
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Tracy Turnblad — newcomer Maddie Baillio – the energetic optimist at the center of Hairspray, planted a wet one on Link Larkin (Garrett Clayton) during the performance — and it had our high school hearts swooning.
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Above all, to be an American is to be an optimist, to believe that we can always do better and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us.
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Her trademark has always been the twin faces of confessional writing — the cynical, furious wronged and the woozy love-drunk optimist, and both are present on Reputation with even more aplomb than before.
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But again, because I'm an optimist who believes YA romance can conquer all things, I think that maybe the pure love between Harry and June will save Harry from a truly terrible fate.
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Winokur, who starred as plus-size optimist Tracy Turnblad in the musical based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name, says she decided to get involved in the casting process.
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As sung by a self-proclaimed optimist who has been given the good odds of an 85 percent chance of full remission, "Cure" begins with a defenseless Mr. Scheuer, supine on a bed.
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Yet, like many Democrats in a state that has voted to send Republicans to the White House in nine consecutive presidential races spanning four decades, he is equal parts optimist, realist and pessimist.
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Yet Mr. Greenstein, ever the optimist, was not prepared for his doctor's frank words when he displayed his latest symptom: tumors along his right jawline, the first spread of cancer to that side.
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Mr. Porter, a prodigious improviser and an integral part of Mr. Washington's touring band, recorded "The Optimist" between 2008 and '09, joined by 11 fellow up-and-comers in Mr. Washington's parents' basement.
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Because of my belief that the American economy is sound, and actually during the past three years under President Trump the American economy has improved, that is my view, I am an optimist.
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A recent meta-analysis of studies found that compared to pessimists, an optimist had about a 35% lower risk of major heart complications, such as a cardiac death, stroke or a heart attack.
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With Gary Cohn as one of his top economic advisors, Donald Trump can expect to hear from an economic optimist leery of the role central banks have taken on to try to engineer growth.
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A self-described optimist, Hyden chose to focus on the positive potential outcome (a ladder out of his dead-end situation) than the more obvious negatives (partnering with shady people to do illegal things).
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The only good news about Donald Trump, and this is from a rose-colored-glasses-crazy-optimist, is that Silly Donny shows us that even on the right wing, religion no longer really matters.
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An optimist might point out that Samsung's silicon division is working closely with Google in the new Treble framework, so there's no reason to panic about the lack of Galaxy phones offering the beta.
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BookTubers Evelyn and Ariel Bissett, and Amerie, a writer and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, also join the conversation about Atwood's two novels as the acclaimed author reveals the reason she considers herself an optimist.
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It's honestly hard to not be an optimist in this job, because we get 2,000 founders a year who come in here, sit in that chair right there, and they just tell us everything.
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Tragically she lost both Blow and McQueen to suicide brought on by crippling depression, and the raw emotion of this is evident in her debut album Optimist in Black, (particularly in the title track).
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Luckily, if I have learned anything from the longevity tests it is that I purport to be an unrealistic optimist (six years added to life expectancy) filled with utterly unfounded confidence (20 years-plus).
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She wanted some relief; she wanted to spend time occupying the head space of an optimist who thought everything might work out, who wasn't plagued with self-doubt, who seemed confident and self-assured.
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Funnily enough, despite the doom and gloom the lyrics portray, Stipe, according to an interview with Vulture last year, describes himself as an optimist and doesn't view the world as close to the end.
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An optimist may still ask: Will this pandemic be a wake-up call for political leaders who should know that strong public health policies are essential for a robust, growing and productive labor force?
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A crazy optimist might have hoped that the impeachment trial, gutted though it was by Senate Republicans, would chasten rather than embolden President Trump, prompting a new judiciousness in his execution of his duties.
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Even an optimist like Greco — he corrects himself whenever he starts to say challenge instead of opportunity — had long presumed his job this season would finish on March 31, the Golden Knights' home finale.
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Asleh was an optimist, but, as he wrote in one note, he was wary of what would happen as he and his Jewish Israeli friends grew older: Now I know who my friends are.
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It's an interesting idea — there's an optimist born every minute — but it only goes so far: As often as not, con artists are availing themselves of our less noble human impulses, maybe most commonly greed.
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Call me an optimist, but I'm hoping that by the end of the movie mean girl Marissa will be snapping that prom queen crown in half and sharing with all the nominees, Cady Heron-style.
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He has failed as often as not, but he has had some successes, too, and Justice Breyer is the eternal optimist, ever hopeful that logic can bring together people of good will but divergent views.
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"The optimist side of me wants to be optimistic, thinking that somebody in power will look at this and say, 'This is not something that can take place in a civilized country,'" Mr. Gipson said.
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Like a certain cockeyed optimist, you may even note a lump in your throat when Emma finally gets her perfect kiss while the supportive Hoosiers and godless Broadway interlopers cheer her on and sing backup.
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" An optimist would acknowledge the challenge in a more hopeful way, saying, "This is going to be difficult, but it's a chance to rethink my life goals and find work that truly makes me happy.
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When you spend 34 years being a tech optimist, and all of a sudden you wake up one morning and you realize that everything you have done has basically gone off the rails, off the cliff.
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While she has been the subject of online threats that led to a Guildford woman being convicted of "using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend," she remains an optimist in her interactions on Twitter.
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At one point in the new documentary The Pathological Optimist, Andrew Wakefield, the man best known for promoting the myth that the MMR vaccine can cause autism, likens himself to the South African revolutionary Nelson Mandela.
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Evans, who started his most successful oil company for $1,1003 in 1985 near the bottom of a price crash and later sold it for $2.2 billion, is an eternal optimist, much like many risk-taking wildcatters.
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"I would like to be an optimist and hope that the people responsible for these things we all saw on video will come here and turn themselves in," said Chief Peter Newsham of the Washington police.
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As a reluctant optimist, I like to hope Democrats and Republicans will pull up their socks, join hands and do what Congress does best: spend money we don't have, while kicking the can down the road.
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"Above all, to be American is to be an optimist — to believe that we can always do better — and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us," the Trump figure says.
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In the case of "Today 4 U," a musical showcase for the larger-than-life optimist Angel (Valentina, a star of "RuPaul's Drag Race"), the audience was so hyped it drowned out much of her vocals.
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My mom was always a stay-at-home mom and was the ultimate optimist about what we could be, and how smart we were, and how good-looking we were, and how we were always the best.
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An optimist might argue that more women are not working because India is still paying for the sins of the past, when so many of them were illiterate and high fertility rates bound them to the home.
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"I asked Amanda if she could produced something fresh and bold, a new way to represent exoplanets (and other astronomical objects by extension), that is inspirational and optimist," University of Cambridge Kavli fellow Amaury Triaud tells Creators.
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"I'm an optimist by nature and I'm somewhat confident that we're going to have a full stack and a full grid next year," Formula One's managing director for commercial Sean Bratches told Reuters when asked about Ferrari.
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"He's an optimist, he's a markets guy, he always says profits are the mother's milk," James Pethokoukis, a columnist for the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said when Mr. Kudlow was picked for the National Economic Council job.
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In character, Damon described himself as an optimist — "a keg-is-half-full kind of guy" — but also as someone who would fight for his nomination: "I don't know the meaning of the word 'stop,'" he said.
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But for an extreme optimist, there was some excitement buried beneath that baggage — if one was willing to look for it — and there is still plenty of season left for a surprising contender or two to emerge.
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"I'm an optimist, and I believe if we have good ideas, well-researched ideas with proper facts, figures, presentation, then we have a much better chance of convincing the teams it's the right way forward," Brawn said.
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Enjoying the ride, not getting too far ahead of himself, comes easily to Klopp, a self-confessed optimist in every situation except the one in which he is about to manage a team in a soccer match.
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One companion, ever the optimist, excitedly told us she had found an online organization with the fuzzy name of Warm Showers: "It's like Couchsurfing for bike tourers," she said, referring to the free-stay site for travelers.
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If he runs for president, O'Rourke -- who built his profile by visiting heavily Republican areas and offering himself as an optimist with little interest in partisanship -- would enter a field of frequent critics of President Donald Trump.
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The film centered on a twisted Cinderella concept: Franny is a wide-eyed optimist taking care of her helpless family when she winds up taken hostage by a bank robber — her rogue Prince Charming — and is whisked away.
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MCCAUL: Well, I am the eternal optimist and I do think there are 218 Republicans that agree with the four pillars of border security, ending chain migration, visa lottery, a a random system and fixing the DACA children.
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Fleabag insists she's a die-hard atheist and has no interest in his promises of salvation — "Don't make me an optimist; it'll ruin my life" — but by Episode 4 he manages to con her into a confessional booth.
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Even the eternal optimist (or pessimist) would struggle for a good explanation as to why the Raptors completely no-showed a crucial playoff game, and so expecting them not to do so again is an exercise in faith.
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"I like to be an optimist, but it will be a challenge," said Lisa J. Donahue, the AlixPartners managing director who is working as the chief restructuring officer of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as Prepa.
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Isabelle's search for love lacks the satisfying ending of a typical romantic movie, but there's a sense of learning, and even a sense of optimism, however hokey Depardieu's medium feels (maybe this is the optimist in me speaking).
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Fact: We have problems and not everyone is enjoying the fruits of our economy, but if you want to be an optimist about America, stand on your head — the country looks so much better from the bottom up.
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Likewise, he is "not an optimist" that this World Cup might have any enduring impact on Putin's Russia, that the spirit of openness, of barriers being broken down, that has characterized the tournament might last beyond its end.
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I have to be an optimist when it comes to considering this next generation because to be pessimistic is to think the world is ending and that we should all walk into the ever-rising plastic-filled ocean.
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For all his frustrations with Israeli society and its direction, he was always an optimist, a man who had gone all in on the Zionist experiment and saw no reason to believe that perfection was ever on offer.
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The series centers around the Liberty City Optimist Club, a non-profit children's foundation Luke co-founded in the early 22s; at its core is a roof-shattering youth football program that has changed and guided countless lives.
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"He was a realistic optimist," one eulogizer, the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said of Mr. Brzezinski, recalling his commitment to human rights, his belief in the power of considered diplomacy and his fierce wariness of Russia.
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I'm an optimist, we have been doing very well, don't forget, the last few years, we are at the top of the cycle, and probably over the top of the cycle, and everybody knows we need to make reforms.
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As Dallek points out in an epilogue added for the 2013 version of the book, it was the death of Kennedy the optimist at such a young age that has left us remembering him as an incredibly popular president.
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An optimist 22020 or 50 years ago might have hoped that de facto segregation would simply fade away over a generation or two, as the formal policies that undergirded de jure segregation were no longer there to support it.
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Fritz said about 12 percent of Union Pacific's business is linked to Mexico, but added he is an "optimist" about the prospects for NAFTA even though Trump campaigned as a fierce critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In the administration, he has been a champion of the corporate tax cuts that Mr. Trump signed into law in late 2017 and a stalwart optimist about the economic growth those tax cuts could spur for years to come.
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But optimist-pessimist is a useful enough binary of character, and Johnson must read differently to pessimists, who might fight the intoxicating "Wonderland," arguing that "fun" is a tool of the surveillance state, petrochemical dealers or something equally sinister.
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He described his father, who died a few years ago, as a "compulsive optimist" who, after being forced to hide in a hole with his parents for two years, would tell his son that life could only get better.
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He described his father, who died a few years ago, as a "compulsive optimist" who, after being forced to hide in a hole with his parents for two years, would tell his son that life could only get better.
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And eternal America optimist Warren Buffett — being Buffett — told CNBC on Friday that the United States will be just fine under Trump, though he has no idea where the stock market will go in the next 103 days or two years.
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Or, if you're an optimist, you could argue that the little blue bird is still a fountain of conversations/clicks/cash, and move into the apartment in San Francisco where it all started in an attempt to keep the magic alive.
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McCartney's reputation as an optimist, the vanguard of '60s hippie ideals, has been something of an albatross around his neck at points of his career, but in a post-Trump/Brexit world, it's come back around to being the highest compliment.
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"Above all, to be American is to be an optimist — to believe that we can always do better — and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us," says Trump, in part, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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Murphy was indeed an optimist: it's not just anything that can go wrong; it's factors you couldn't have imagined as relevant to your problem space triggering a series of cascading disasters that leave you regretting that your parents ever met.
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A Guinness record Daphne Guinness is releasing an album called "Optimist in Black" come May; in the interim, you can watch her David LaChapelle-directed music video for "Evening in Space," which features fashions by Iris van Herpen and Noritaka Tatehana.
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Politico sums up Baker as an optimist at heart ("as benefits a congenital dealmaker") — and one who is hopeful Trump will turn out to be a "pragmatic president" who won't be too stubborn to change course if he screws up.
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He is an indefatigable optimist, a warrior -- occasionally quixotic, always gung ho -- who refuses to stop until he's made every last phone call, bent every last ear, appealed to every last world leader who might help him in his quest.
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"The Ballad of Copernicus" is a wonderfully melancholic ode that uses hypnotic, deep vocals to evoke wells of sadness before "Lament of the Optimist" takes us back to weirder territory and the blacker elements of the band shine through once again.
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The first six episodes of Iron Fist paint him as a boundless optimist with a Zen perspective on life, a net worth measured in billions, and a streak of frustrating naivety to go along with his somewhat ill-defined supernatural powers.
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Related: The Health Benefits Of Being An Optimist Vs. A Pessimist"We feel accomplished in the fantasized-about future, so we don't actually put in the work needed to achieve that future," lead study author Gabriele Oettingen, PhD, explained to Shape.
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The pessimist throws his hands up and complains about the wind; the optimist sits back, saying that things will improve; but the great leaders says, "We can do this!" and he adjusts the sails and keeps the ship moving forward.
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Placed alongside the other originals, a songbook standard ("A Cockeyed Optimist"), a Beatles tune ("For No One") and one by Thelonious Monk ("We See"), it becomes part of a representative picture of Mr. Hersch's nightclub set on a good night.
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On the way home, he runs into Whoville's resident optimist Bricklebaum (the glorious Kenan Thompson, the best part of the film), whose love for everyone and everything extends to the Grinch himself, though the Grinch finds his Christmas decorating abhorrent.
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A true optimist would say that, although human life will never be perfect, crucial aspects of it can improve if we work at it, for example by refining building standards and seismological predictions so that fewer people die in earthquakes.
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An optimist would point out that Denver keeping the No. 2 seed means it is uniquely positioned for a trip to the conference finals, as its win on Wednesday kept the Nuggets away from Golden State for the first two rounds.
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He said the current strain he saw on governing institutions had him ready to appropriate the "troubled optimist" description that his father, Stewart Udall, who served as the interior secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, used to apply to himself.
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However, I am an optimist and I have met so many people and also have seen so many examples of Israelis and Palestinians reaching out to each other and trying to forge bonds to try and circumvent a failed political process.
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THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST For this documentary, the director Miranda Bailey trailed Andrew Wakefield, the lead author of a widely discredited 1998 study — since retracted by the journal that published it, The Lancet — that claimed a link between vaccines and autism.
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"One of the things that makes me an optimist are the young people," Ginsburg said in a conversation at the New York Public Library Monday, according to Vanity Fair, where she was awarded the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.
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If I'm going to turn on my complete optimist head: blockchain will allow music and musicians who make content to function freely in the marketplace in a way that instead of randomly rewarding and/or punishing creators, it will allow compensation with fairness.
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And so, I am going to be a little bit of an optimist and say it is going to be South Korea and it is going to be South Korea allied with the US, allied with Japan, a very strong group of nations.
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If you are a Trump ally -- or an optimist more broadly -- you see his willingness to adjust (or reverse) positions he staked out during the campaign as proof that he is open to new information and continues to learn how to be president.
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You are correct in saying that this affected the oil price and it hiked by 10% but the oil price increase was caused also by the overly optimist forecasts of growth rates in major global economies like the US economy, Chinese economy.
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As both a big fan of dark camp and a terminal optimist, I had faith that even if this story was starting with a grossly outdated premise of weight loss "fixing" a teen girl's life, it could find a comedic sweet spot.
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The optimist would say, correctly, that Obama leaves a legacy of more than 20 million Americans receiving health insurance, many citizens with preexisting conditions receiving coverage for the first time in their lives and children of policyholders receiving coverage from their parents' policies.
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Nice guy optimist Barry is finally feeling all of that loss, and his anger is being directed toward the latest speedster/parent murderer, who also plans to siphon both their speeds into a giant magnet-thing that will destroy the whole multiverse.
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I'm also an optimist generally, and so dwelling on what little obstacles I have faced really doesn't do justice to the telling of my story, or the hard-fought victories of women in my field who made a career like mine a reality.
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And the source of my optimism is that I go around our country — if you want to be an optimist about America today, stand on your head, because the country looks so much better from the bottom up than the top down.
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Ms. Oakes may be the original plant influencer: In 225, the makers of the Toyota Prius designed the subcompact Prius C with Ms. Oakes in mind (the company described her as an "active eco-optimist") and created a paint color in her name.
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Despite all this—and despite the revelations about Russia, and the hastily written executive orders, and the unvetted Cabinet secretaries, and the regulatory reversals, and the leaks and the tweets and the counter-tweets—Schumer, ever the optimist, told me he was upbeat.
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Yes, there are good and bad people in the world, but Welch says the difference between an energy-taker and an energy-giver is that the latter person is an optimist who sees bad people as only a minority in the overall population.
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As a tech optimist, I was ready to be a believer in 360 again, but sometimes more cameras just means more work, and as a consumer you really have to know exactly what you want to do with this camera before you buy it.
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Well, you're an optimist, and you love a gamble, so those don't always work out…but what I'm getting at is that money is something you like to celebrate, not something you try to stress about, so you might not be feeling like yourself.
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There was some selection bias at work, as all my introductions were brokered by a smart and thoughtful friend, but not a single investor I talked to fit the description of the supercilious techno-optimist — and most, in private, didn't hesitate to concede Palihapitiya's point.
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For the last few years, the professional conference circuit has been overrun by keynote speakers from San Francisco, bearing job titles like chief optimist and commanding five-figure fees to tell us how lucky we are to be living in a glorious new technological era.
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It's not hard for an optimist to find upside in less mall space in the U.S.—the country has 10x as much mall coverage per capita as Germany, and many would be happy to see that gap close if it meant more affordable housing or green space.
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"Above all, to be American is to be an optimist ... and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us," says the life-size robot president, who stands next to a seated Abraham Lincoln in the theme park's Hall of Presidents exhibit.
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"I am a moderate optimist that in July, if all goes well with the asset quality review and the stress tests ... we will have a reason to apply for ERM entry and will expect a positive result," Goranov told a public debate on the euro adoption.
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" She is, however, an optimist; her language — sometimes childlike, but with a learned vocabulary — models a freedom that many poets have sought but few have made so smart or so odd, festooned with children's games and singsong rhymes: "Olly olly income free / Ghost duck not space duck. . . .
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Lindelof is, on some level, an optimist, and I think one of the things that made this show work so well is that his gooey self collided with Tom Perrotta's slightly more prickly artistic sensibility and made something beautiful (once they worked out some early kinks).
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Starting in 2004, a growing number of writers writers associated with the Bay Area graff scene came to visit or live in Taipei, among them CHEK, UDON, OPTIMIST, and NOE, the latter who was originally from Taiwan, but grew up in California and returned for good in 2008.
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Bill Nelson — who would be crucial to any deal as he's the top Democrat on the Commerce Committee — said he "is an optimist by nature but it's pretty clear to me that the climate isn't ripe at the moment" to reach a legislative deal on net neutrality. Rep.
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I'm an optimist at heart when it comes to new technologies, but because 5G is so much more than just a new device merely connecting to a faster wireless network, I don't think it's unreasonable to be skeptic that its deployment will be smooth and and not somewhat bumpy.
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These five characters form the main constellation of the show, as they each grapple with The Big Questions: Bojack wants meaning, Todd wants acceptance, Princess Carolyn wants be a woman who has it all, Diane wants creative fulfilment, and Mr. Peanutbutter, ever the ditzy optimist, just wants belly rubs.
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Prince Abdulaziz said he was "by nature an optimist" and that the "jury is out" when it comes to the outlook for oil demand, adding that if he took IEA (International Energy Agency) projections forecasting slowing demand to heart, he would "probably be on Prozac all the time."
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For months, Mr. Mnuchin has been viewed as a moderate voice and optimist on Mr. Trump's trade team, but before his meeting with Mr. Yi he struck a more strident tone, laying blame for the faltering negotiations directly on China and accusing it of backing out of commitments.
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Status: Stuck in the middle 239-210 last season Key newcomers: Domantas Sabonis, Victor Oladipo, Cory Joseph, Darren Collison, Bojan Bogdanovic, T.J. Leaf (draft) Key departures: Paul George, Monta Ellis Outlook: An optimist would say the Pacers were refocusing the team on a youth movement centered around Myles Turner.
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In Finland, for example, the former first lady's book has been at No. 1 on the bookseller Akateeminen Kirjakauppa's nonfiction list for weeks, followed closely by "Paranoid Optimist," a memoir from the Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa (clearly that title works better in Finnish than it does translated into English).
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Owen GaffneyAnthropocene analyst and science writer at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth So, North Korea has just fired a rocket in Japan's direction and the one person the world would typically turn to for leadership in crisis—the US president—is unhinged, yet, still, I am an optimist.
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If you're an optimist about the robotic future, you likely hear talk that we're all going to lose our jobs or suffer a big pay cut, and tell friends to relax — the new technology revolution is going to turn out like all the others since the dawn of the Industrial Age.
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"I have learned, as an entrepreneur, the most important skill you have to have is you have to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time," said Stephanie Tilenius, former Google VP and founder of Vida, an app that pairs you with 24/7 access to a health coach.
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The tech-optimist view that has dominated has been based on a sort of vulgar reading of the efficient-markets hypothesis, the idea that efficiency is not just desirable in itself but will definitionally lead to good ends, so that creating more tools to that end is a worthy aim.
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"I remain the eternal optimist and hopeful that we can still try to push to that somewhere in these next couple of months — we have two and a half months left in this administration — and we're going to work to the last moment to try to do that," he said.
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I guess I'm an eternal optimist, which is, I believe that, you know, human evolution, I believe that people will respond, you know, at first they'll deny, then they'll be angry, but then they'll actually help drive the change, and I can see quite a bit of that change coming.
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IF THEY COME FOR A SECOND PACKAGE YOU WILL SEE IT ALL BUNDLED IN TOGETHER AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER RULE, SO YOU JUST NEED A SIMPLE MAJORITY TO PASS AND IT. AND AMERICA WILL GROW AND WE WILL ALL BE OPTIMISTIC LIKE KUDLOW IS, I AM AN OPTIMIST.
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Gloria Vanderbilt, who died Monday at age 95, was many things in her long life: an artist, author, actress, socialite, designer, pawn, tragic story, triumphant survivor, eternal optimist, mother and wife (multiple times), but for many in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she was also the name that helped changed denim forever.
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Absent that argument, in a primary where Biden is just an old white dude running away from his record, the party's various moderate voters will almost certainly fracture and go to fresher candidates with cleaner pitches — to the Texan Jesus or the South Bend Meritocrat or the Mean Minnesotan or the Racial Optimist.
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Alison has learned to cover her fear and neediness with a brash, mouthy manner that seems to spell trouble, but she's welcomed by her St. John's cohort: Wade (Kyle Beltran), an easygoing, guitar-strumming optimist who's kicking a pain-pill habit, and the openhearted Cherie (Kristolyn Lloyd), a recovering alcoholic and a former teacher herself.
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Despite the foreboding weather that forces the family to stay inside in dangerously close quarters, they somehow pull through, and even have time for a blowout party and a baby-naming ceremony before the movers arrive, an ending that, along with the rest of the novel, only the most determined optimist will find plausible.
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The actress shared of a close-up photo of her face on Thursday evening, wearing a wide-brimmed straw sun hat, a delicate rose gold diamond choker, and a pair of white Privé Revaux The Artist sunglasses, complete with geometric, polarized rose-tinted lenses for the consummate optimist, naturally, and retail for an extremely reasonable $29.95.
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I am no glass-half-full optimist, in fact I have more than my fair share of irrational black dog moments (mostly on Sunday evenings) but I do think it's time to take a bit of stock and get to grips with the fact that what is done is done and there is no going back.
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That said, I am an optimist and am actively involved in the Missing 32% Project [formed to illuminate gender challenges] at the American Institute for Architects San Francisco, so I can help figure this out for younger architects and for the profession itself, which is sadly hemorrhaging talent because it has been unresponsive to the needs of its members.
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It was a striking change in tone for Mr. Kerry, usually the perpetual optimist, who only 12 days ago had welcomed a long-negotiated agreement for a reduction in violence, a grounding of the Syrian Air Force, and ultimately the joint-targeting of the Islamic State and Nusra Front terrorist groups, with his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov.
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In the literature of meat-eating ethics—in which Peter Singer's Animal Liberation is the philosophically rigorous canonical text, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals the sentimental journey toward vegetarianism, and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma the gourmand's effort to balance conscience and appetite—Reese has carved out his own niche: the business-friendly techno-utopian optimist.
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And, uh, I-, I do-, I'm an optimist, I believe that rationality prevails, at the end of the day, and I think everybody would like to have a better world for their children than they had for themselves, and the best way to do that is for China and the US to come together constructively and collaboratively.
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Lance had always known him to be a wide-eyed scientific optimist, the sort of man who, as far back as the late 1950s, dreamed of building a computer endowed with all the capabilities of a human—a machine that could prove complex mathematical theorems, engage in conversation, and play a decent game of Ping-Pong.
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That Trump has stressed "law and order" doesn't seem exactly congruent with a more progressive policy on drugs, but Trump is so fundamentally non-ideological, at heart, that the optimist is hardly crazy to suppose that he could made to consider changing just what the law, in this case, consists of, in view of enhancing the "order" in question.
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"We observed that an optimist had about a 35% lower risk of major heart complications, such as a cardiac death, stroke or a heart attack, compared to the pessimists in each of these studies," said cardiologist Dr. Alan Rozanski, a professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who is lead author of the study.
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That has stayed with me and I am an optimist today because I believe most people in Washington and around this country want to live in a more fair and more just world, are willing to work together to get there, and they need leaders who will honor that and bring out those tendencies as opposed to the tendencies that tend to tear us apart.
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Because I'm an eternal optimist, and because we have a history where people of color were not allowed to vote, women were not allowed to vote, I imagine that there were times when there was pause and people thought, well we really can't have a system where women voted or where minorities voted, but here we are today in a world where it is possible.
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Her comments to the media suggest she's enough of a techno-optimist to be at least a little bit excited about a future where we merge more fully with machines, if not being supplanted by them entirely—and she seems to be approaching the album's rollout as an exercise in building out her own digital world, as though she weren't entirely happy with the present one.
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And if we can speak to them about our responsibilities to the next generation and we can give people realistic ways to deal with this so they don't feel like they have to sacrifices this generation to do it, they have to put hardship on their kids now in order to save their grandkids, then I tend to be a cautious optimist about our ability to make change.
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Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinPentagon watchdog declines to investigate hold on Ukraine aid Schumer blocks drug pricing measure during Senate fight, seeking larger action Five things to watch at Supreme Court's DACA hearings MORE (D-Ill.), the No. 2202 Senate Democrat who was in office during President Clinton's impeachment trial in 2628, said he was an "optimist" about the chances for a deal setting up a set of procedures.
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"I am an optimist today because I believe most people in Washington and around this country want to live in a more fair and more just world, are willing to work together to get there, and they need leaders who will honor that and bring out those tendencies as opposed to the tendencies that tend to tear us apart," he said on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
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I mean at this point, it's just ... Well, we're nine days out from a scheduled vote, and I have this fault where I'm kind of an optimist, and I feel like if people make a ruckus and make some noise and do some old-fashioned things like lighting up the phones with their elected representatives, we might, in fact, create some movement to change the course of history here.
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