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title: "3 Want Optimist Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/i-ve-always-been-very-hopeful-which-i-guess-isn-t-strange-coming-from/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [“I’ll tell you what makes me optimistic, is that this country is still full of people who just didn’t get the word.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-friedman/i-ll-tell-you-what-makes-me-optimistic-is-that-this-country-is-still/)

[Thomas Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-friedman/)

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> [Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tinsley-mortimer/life-doesn-t-always-end-up-where-you-want-it-to-go-you-have-to-be-an/)

[Tinsley Mortimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tinsley-mortimer/)

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