Innocence Quotes - Page 28

• The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

  Billy Campbell

  Nice, People, Bumps

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I think there's an innocence to me.

  Krista Allen

  Thinking

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• In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Moon, Reality, Haste

  Song: Desert Moon

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• Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion, Reality, Thinking

  Joni Mitchell (2013). “Joni Mitchell Complete So Far: Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.410, Alfred Music

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• All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Love, Inspirational, Educational

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• We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

  Joni Mitchell

  Alcohol, Drug, Brutality

  Song: The Three Great Stimulants, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Alcohol, Drug, Emptiness

  Song: Same Old Lang Syne, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Self Esteem, Snacks, Childhood

  Song: Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

  Ray Davies

  Heart, Waiting, Politics

  Song: When You Were a Child, Album: Think Visual

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• So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.

  John Gerstner

  Running, Pain, Grief

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• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Optimistic, Fiction

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• India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

  Anil Kapoor

  Purity And Innocence, India, Want

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Guilt, Criminals

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• What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

  Klaus Nomi

  Simple, Complicated, Hard

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• Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Children, Parent

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

  Craig Ferguson

  Past, Thinking, Looks

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Character, Blood, Choices

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• Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.

  Philip Pullman

  Hate, Dust, Different

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Helping, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

  Lucille Clifton

  Eye, Kissing, Blessing

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

  Joan Didion

  Likes, Ends, Delusion

  1961 'On Self Respect', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

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• I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiring, Memories, Want

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

  Robertson Davies

  Mystery

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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