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It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know. -- Craig Bruce
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. -- Leo Buscaglia
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. -- Benjamin Jowett
I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck. -- Patton Oswalt
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. -- Francis Herbert Hedge
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. -- Diane Kruger
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. -- Zosia Mamet
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. -- Edsger Dijkstra
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. -- Liu Xiaobo
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind. -- Nancy Gibbs
What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true. -- Charlotte Le Bon
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. -- Annette Bening
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to. -- Buddy Hackett
Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between. -- Austin Grossman
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others -- Henri Nouwen
It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew. -- Nicholas Sparks
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. -- John Green
When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. -- Henry Fuseli
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about. -- Stephen Lang
We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. -- Patrick Hayden
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! -- Honore de Balzac
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. -- Robert Munsch
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. -- Alice Miller
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. -- Debashis Chatterjee
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. -- Leo Buscaglia
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest. -- Starhawk
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against clichÃ©. Not just clichÃ©s of the pen but clichÃ©s of the mind and clichÃ©s of the heart. -- Martin Amis

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