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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
I'm a cynical idealist.
God save me from idealists.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
No one more cynical than an idealist.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
There aren't many idealists in politics.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
I'm an idealist. You do things your way well enough, for long enough, you'll get rewarded.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.
I am kind of an idealist but I became a DUP member because I believe politics should have a footing in harsh reality.
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.
I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.
