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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

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

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.