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Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.

Paul Fry

Doubt, Care, Matter

"Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

Ellen Page

Gay, Actors, Facts

Source: www.slate.com

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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Jon Bon Jovi

Hungry, Power Hungry, Wells

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It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it certainly would have sounded fantastic if in the 1950's you were told that where you sat in a restaurant or on a bus could begin to uproot racism.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Order, Racism, Decision

"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fairness, Fairs, Not Fair

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.408, Macmillan

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Please don't take him away from this world. Please don't let him die here in my arms, not after everything we've been through together, not after You've taken so many others. Please, I beg You, let him live. I am willing to sacrifice anything to make this happen- I'm willing to do anything You ask. Maybe you'll laugh at me for such a naive promise, but I mean it in earnest, and I don't care if it makes no sense or seems impossible. Let him live. Please. I can't bear this a second time. Tell me there is still good in this world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

Marie Lu

Taken, Mean, Sacrifice

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I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

Brooke Shields

Funny, Mother, Money

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

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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

Chinua Achebe

Children, Eye, Justice

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Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.

Michael Che

Country, Men, Thinking

Source: www.avclub.com

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Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Faith, Science, Naivety

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962). “Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species”

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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

Claude Monet

Art, Thinking, Squares

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Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

Christian, Humble, Thoughtful

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What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.

Cesar Milstein

Ignorance, Science, Simple

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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

Alexander Haig

Iran, Paris, Giving

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Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

George R. R. Martin

Children, Thinking, Novelists

YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"George R.R. Martin", www.youtube.com. August 06, 2011.

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Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

Rene Russo

Thinking, Age

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Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.

George Friedman

Cowboy, President, Cases

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The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

David Luiz

Player, Piano, Consistency

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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Moon, Thinking, Space

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Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Would Be, Generations, Care

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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

Daniel H. Wilson

Hands, Space, Expectations

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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Thom Yorke

Song, War, Stupid

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There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.

Derek R. Audette

Wings, Evil, Political

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The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Frank X. Barron

Home, Symbolism, Creative

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My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Mika

Childhood, Records, Fairytale

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

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