So, for all of my introspection and depression, I suppose the eternal optimist inside me is not far from the surface. |
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However, the optimist in me says there's nothing that can happen that can't be remedied with a large hat and cover-all-sins Aviators. |
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Then that feisty optimist rears up in me, and my commitment deepens to enjoying this brief ride on the only green planet I happen to know of. |
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There are signs of improvement, but only an incurable optimist would conclude that the game is in rude health. |
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What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills. |
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The 61-year-old, still an eternal optimist, believes he can turn adversity to his advantage. |
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Perhaps I'm an eternal optimist, but I think these films have great impact. |
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An eternal optimist, proprietor Robert Finch has an amazing story to tell of the vicissitudes of farming emus. |
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I hate to be the eternal optimist, but it's hard for me to look at it any other way. |
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He readily admits mistakes were made before he joined but, like an eternal optimist, is eager today to find a silver lining in every cloud. |
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If I were an optimist, I would suspect that the Democrats are digging their own grave. |
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Gregory Stock is an optimist about the effects of genetic engineering of offspring. |
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But I'm an optimist and I can see how much progress has been made in the past 25 years so I'm hoping we can continue to move onward and upward. |
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You may call me optimist or headless fan, but I really doubt there will be any hint of dubstep on the album. |
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He identifies himself as a staunch optimist and an embodiment of positive thinking. |
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But in fact, Shelley was an optimist who wrote poems suffused with faith in human progress. |
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At this juncture, even a cockeyed optimist has difficulty seeing much hope. |
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Might we not induce the pessimist to give up saying this by giving the optimist something more to say? |
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As a cockeyed optimist with a cynical streak, I've got the best of both worlds. |
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I am guessing that deep down inside my inexcitability about life was just a temporary glitch and I am an optimist after all. |
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One is a practical optimist, the other a level-headed pragmatist. |
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She is not the only optimist in the long line of people working hard in pursuit of an AIDS vaccine. |
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Scotland's coach does not usually want for words, but even the perennial optimist found it difficult to see any highlights amongst the autumnal gloom of yesterday's encounter. |
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For an incurable optimist like me, the Wallabies showed enough to keep me hopeful that they really can retain the World Cup as long as all the cards fall the right way. |
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Hughes is well cast as the sympathetic, Candide-like Simon, an incurable optimist who talks about hopelessness without quite grasping the concept himself. |
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I am an eternal optimist, so I am going to hope that it gets better. |
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I'm an eternal cautious optimist though, and I can't be what I'm not. |
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Only an eternal optimist could expect success in the second half. |
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This is something you see very rarely in football and you would have to be the most eternal optimist to think 3-0 down was a platform for victory. |
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The problems were complex and only a naïve optimist would think that an ambitious solution could be found quickly. |
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Putin may very well be the last optimist left in the country, which is facing a time of confusion and disappointment. |
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Elly Hess, the original optimist at Edgewood, is now a legendary figure in weeder folklore. |
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When thinking about things to come, he is neither an optimist nor a pessimist, but a seeker after facts. |
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Therefore, as the adage says, the pessimist might be right, but the optimist enjoys the trip. |
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A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. |
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I have been the eternal optimist, the one with the positive attitude and the persevering nature. |
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Contrary to the impression this column may sometimes give, I like to think that I am at heart an optimist. |
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I'm an optimist and I keep saying that I believe that the best day is in the future. |
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An optimist would say Richmond were rusty, others that they still don't look entirely up to it. |
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Jan Bauer is a writer, editor and researcher by choice and an optimist by nature. |
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I am by nature an optimist and believe that the capital markets system rewards patient investors. |
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With the following album, his profound need for an optimist vision of existence came to the fore. |
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Le Point: You're an optimist. The Greeks are demonstrating their dissatisfaction. |
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We are certainly asking a whole lot of one human being, but I am ever the optimist! |
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Forecasts remain optimist for a growth which should continue over the next few years. |
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Without being able to commit myself, but being a natural optimist, I hope that the first proceedings will take place next year. |
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I can describe myself as sincere, sociable, optimist, sweet, family solidarity and humourous. |
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These perpetual deficits are now on the verge of spiraling out of control, and only a blind optimist would discount the potential for a serious dollar accident. |
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Beset by financial troubles, he remained an incorrigible optimist. |
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Ever the optimist, Crystal believes that languages need not meet the fate of the dodo bird. |
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But then, as he says of himself, he must be coded an optimist. |
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If even Mr Pronk, who I know as an incorrigible go-getter and optimist, no longer sees a chance for the peace process, then it is really time for us to sound the alarm. |
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If you're an optimist, the fact that there are 1.3m apps out there provides a delightful affirmation of human ingenuity and creativity: all those programmers, each imbued with a great idea, beavering away writing code. |
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Linda Ironside describes herself as an incorrigible optimist and this part of her personality comes through strongly from the early days of her diagnosis while teaching in China to the present. |
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Mr. Speaker, I guess members could call me an optimist. |
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However, having said that, I am an optimist, and the strange thing is that all these people with different views on this phenomenon can come to the same conclusion. |
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And some people say that Murphy was an incurable optimist. |
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He said: «I remain an optimist, not because I give evidence that right is going to prosper, but because of my unflinching faith that right must prosper in the end. |
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Well then, it seems Kofi Annan is hopping off the optimist bandwagon. |
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This optimist says yes, and Canada is in a position to lead the way. |
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In general, I am almost certain, not because I am a woollyeyed optimist but because I'm a realist, that the future will be better than the present. |
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On that score, Cook is an optimist, however. |
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Michèle Patry, a member of the Club optimiste de Touraine, in collaboration with other optimist clubs and several volunteers, made 125 dolls for sick children. |
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Well, let me just say that I am an optimist but that is by nature and so, from an analytical point of view, this is not a strong argument, admittedly. |
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The optimist in me believes so, especially when we consider 2009 acreage battles that must yet be waged down the road in light of stratospheric production costs. |
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Sam's a natural optimist but even he has to recognise that his vision of turning his small machine shop into a sub-contractor to large companies is a pipedream. |
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Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist. |
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A keen cricketer and an optimist Keith still has not totally given up the hope that one day the phone will ring and it will be the England coach looking for an ageing bowler and number 11 bat! |
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Friedman believes-and I agree-that they are racing us to the top, again not because I'm an optimist, but because that's always been the pattern, that's always been the trajectory. |
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He who thinks he has hit bottom is not a pessimist, but an optimist. |
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In a French version of the Reader's Digest, I read one day the infamous phrase about the pessimist and the optimist both being necessary to society: one invented the airplane and the other, the parachute. |
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The likes of Gary Neville, who is a great talker, a great optimist, and a great rallier of men. |
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Over the past quarter-century, it has helped to turn Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese jailbird who is the new Nobel peace-prize laureate, into an optimist. |
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You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna. |
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He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill. |
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The track record for winning anything was pretty poor, but I'm an incurable optimist. |
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An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world. |
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A self-confessed optimist, he says that having unsolved problems is what makes life interesting. |
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Thoreau thought he was an exceptional man, a philosopher of great faith, and an optimist. |
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Thus, on the one hand, I'm a chirpy optimist, blessed with an uncommon degree of good fortune, who can never quite believe his luck. |
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Whether you are a cloudy pessimist or a sunny optimist, you can be effective or ineffective. |
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Bartley viewed himself as an optimist, and was heartened by what he had observed during his career. |
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But I am an optimist, and I think this film is very optimistic. |
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Hat's the way to do it Fergus SO, does Fergus McCann really think Celtic can go down south and treble their value overnight or is he just a cock-eyed optimist? |
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