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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element. ↗

— Alex Winter

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All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline. ↗

— Alicia Witt

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We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

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Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot. ↗

— Pia Zadora

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It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe. ↗

— Mark Zandi

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It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. ↗

— Paul Getty

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