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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
Adam Savage
Debate
Pessimist
Think
Say
Would
Exactly
See
More
Am
Edward
Optimistic
Than
Discussion
Snowden
Where
Should
Pessimistic
International
I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.
Ben Feldman
Me
Pessimist
Think
Am
Huge
Just
Jew
I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
Cate Blanchett
God
You
Win
Walk
Thought
First
Pessimist
Know
Real
Oh
Oh God
Your
Peaked
Oscar
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Christopher Nolan
Myself
Pessimist
Extraordinary
Considered
Never
Most
Am
Truly
Person
Lucky
Lucky Person
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.
Clay Aiken
Pessimist
Think
Bit
Hoped
Optimist
Maybe
Realist
Little
Little Bit
Even
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
Colin Mochrie
Pessimist
Every
Project
Envisioned
Am
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Damien Chazelle
Myself
Waiting
Drop
Pessimist
Other
Way
Kind
Insecure
Weird
Weird Way
Always
Shoe
Going
Ground
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
David Souter
Future
Democracy
Pessimist
About
Am
Optimist
American
I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
Domhnall Gleeson
Nature
You
Decision
Mind
First
Pessimist
Worst
Come
Make
Always
Whenever
Things
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
Politics
Art
Pessimist
Anarchist
Take
Merely
Terms
Well
Understand
Am
Impressionist
Literature
Mean
Them
I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.
Jacob Anderson
Impossible
Pessimist
Enjoy
Thinking
Find
About
How
Get
Anything
Happening
While
Next
Next Thing
Right
Thing
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
God
Best
Dark
Fears
Pessimist
Live
Worlds
Possible
True
Almost
Gently
Answered
Still
Very
Optimist
Little
Mean
Speaking
Creeds
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
James Buchan
Soul
Financial
Past
Before
Nothing
Pessimist
Circles
Boom
Markets
Only
Sees
Bear
Wretched
Falling
Happened
Which
Again
Eternal
Bust
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine
Better
Pessimist
Worse
Optimist
Much
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Joan Baez
Me
People
Pessimist
Say
Would
People Say
Never
Had
Always
Doing
Stopped
Realist
The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
Josh Fox
Love
Faith
Great
People
Great Deal
First
Lost
Greed
Sense
Pessimist
Rage
Destroying
Out
Solution
Had
Frenzy
Without
Deal
Always
Line
Succumb
Figure
Things
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Laurence J. Peter
Man
Pessimist
Ways
Crosses
Both
Both Ways
He
Looks
Who
Street
Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.
Louis MacNeice
Satire
Animals
Practice
Pessimist
Thinking
Evidence
Machines
Plenty
Finds
He
Support
Contemporary
His
Human
Doomed
Human Beings
View
Theory
Beings
Based
Basically
Lewis
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
Nathan Englander
Myself
Pessimist
Way
Call
Sure
Always
Optimist
Optimistic
Goes
Either
Which
Pessimistic
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
Work
Time
You
Try
Pessimist
Too
Out
Optimist
Optimistic
Depressing
Work Out
Then
Pessimistic
Things
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick Cave
World
Pessimist
Way
Kind
See
Certain
Help
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
Phil Anselmo
Before
Pessimist
Think
Out
Bad
Record
About
How
Came
Any
Done
Going
Successful
Ever
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
Become
Rich
Pessimist
Out
Optimist
Many
Buying
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
Roberto Rossellini
Evil
Pessimist
Perceive
Opinion
Am
Exists
Optimism
Where
In My Opinion
Form
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek
Sad
Blessing
Socialism
Disguise
Myth
Pessimist
Lesson
Think
Saved
Intervene
Intervention
Bit
Would
Some
More
Democratic
Were
Been
Very
Authentic
What If
Soviet
Soviets
Little
Little Bit
Flowering
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
Spike Lee
Hope
You
Pessimist
Think
Films
Find
Total
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