Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!"
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Realistic
116 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Prince Philip
Royalty
"Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation."
Mary McCarthy
Author
"If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
Jerry Brown
Politician
"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
Amy Lee
Musician
"I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious."
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"Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy"
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"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
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"You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it."
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"We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!"
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"The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront."
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"I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event."
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"The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art."
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"Be realistic: always wish the impossible."
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"Be realistic: Go for the impossible!"
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"How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all."
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"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding."
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"I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic."
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"Goals have to be realistic and flexible."
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"It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time."
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"believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."
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"We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us."
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"When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon."
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"I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to."
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"I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book."
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"I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic."
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