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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

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You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. ↗

— Teri Garr

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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

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To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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I am a mixture of idealist and realist. ↗

— Roger Moore

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