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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.