I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.” — Mik Everett Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills. — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer. — Anthony J. D'Angelo Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep… — Vanessa Kerry Copy Share Image
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The naive which is simultaneously beautiful, poetic, and idealistic, must be both intention and instinct. The essence of intention, in this sense,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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