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...optimist would argue that we are finding common ground, connecting on a deeper level where we don’t feel the need to hide behind our public facades. In telling stories, we assert our existence, forcing our friends to acknowledge that we have important stories to tell...
...SHREK It's the donkey, dummy. He's a needy nuisance, a sweet-souled cynic, a brave coward, a bouncy optimist. In Eddie Murphy's brilliant vocal characterization, he's just the guy to lift Mike Myers' eponymous ogre out of his slough of despondency and serve as long-eared Cupid in his romance with Cameron Diaz's princess. The movie runs on his delightful spirit--and runs right past an adult's expectations for animation. We usually hope not to get too restless as we indulge the kids in their cinematic treats. But this pretty, fractured fairy tale offers...
...part, yes, I’m an activist. I’m an optimist who believes that we all have one chance and must do all we can in life. We have one shot...
...didn't want to get married because, basically, I don't like thinking any further into the future than what I'm going to eat and how I'm going to get sex. Anything else is a hassle. Also, as an optimist, I like the thought of not knowing how the future will work out, the future of course consisting of what I'll eat and whom I'll have sex with. Once you know those things, all that's left is when you're going to die. And there's a website that calculates that...
...with jazz greats Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, American author hailed as a master of the short story; in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty's incisive tales, inspired by her observations of Southern life, earned her numerous awards, including a 1973 Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Optimist's Daughter. (See Eulogy) DIED. AVELINE KUSHI, 78, macrobiotic cookbook author who opened one of the first natural foods stores in the U.S.; in Brookline, Massachusetts. A native of Japan who moved to America in 1951, Kushi believed macrobiotic diets could help promote world peace...