Naive Quotes - Page 14

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

David Puttnam

Soul, Cinema, Problem

"A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Kim Wilde

Choices, Grey, Mice

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When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

Justin Bartha

Acting, Actors, Agents

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

James Blunt

Song, Teenager, Writing

"Some Kind of Trouble and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Heartbroken, Mean, Sound

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Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Benjamin Walker

Careers, Ideas, Decision

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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

Jack Wild

Immature, Wish, Age

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

John Walford

Christian, Art, Lying

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It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

Janet McTeer

Believe, Thinking, Waiting

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

Dale Murphy

Want, Certain, Glad

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I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

Alexander McQueen

Thinking, Clothes, Romance

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Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

Laura Schlessinger

Women, Stupid, Guy

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In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Judith Martin

Children, Honesty, Thinking

Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.

Monte Lipman

Mean, Artist, Data

"Corner Office: Republic Records Honchos Monte & Avery Lipman Discuss Jennifer Lawrence's 'Hunger Games' Smash and Defend 'The Voice'". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. December 15, 2014.

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The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

Janusz Korczak

Mother, Teacher, Children

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Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

Hedwig Dohm

Men, Brutality, Locked Up

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You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

Lindsey Wixson

Fashion, Kansas, Different

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I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

Moby

Inspiration, Simple, Sound

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There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

Robert Greene

People, Political, Stuff

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Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.

Ravi Gomatam

Thinking, Everyday, World

"Physics and Commonsense - Reassessing the connection in the light of quantum theory". arxiv.org. August 12, 2007.

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I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

Elena Poniatowska

Believe, Political, Politics

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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

Wallace Shawn

Children, Thinking, Understanding

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

Dakota Fanning

Thinking, College, Parent

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I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.

Kenneth P. Thompson

Believe, Thinking, Race

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It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.

Grayson L. Kirk

Girl, Sex, Would Be

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