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• Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

  Sarah Palin

  War, Waiting, Ems

  "Sarah Palin’s Cpac Speech Shows She Hasn’t Lost It". www.newsweek.com. February 27, 2015.

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• If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!

  Richard Dawkins

  Jobs, Offering, Engineering

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  A. A. Gill

  Dirty, Bankers, Negative

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• Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity -
  what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented
  horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores,
  the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, War, Charity

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• I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

  Bruce Feiler

  Writing, Library, Eras

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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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• I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

  Sondre Lerche

  Song, Next Week, Different

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• I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

  Alanna Ubach

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Order, Years, Giving

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

  M. Ward

  Artist, Ideas, America

  Vanity Fair, August 2006.

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• Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Believe, Favour, Ifs

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• I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

  Wade Guyton

  Money, Art, New York

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• The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

  Ilana Mercer

  Nice, Men, Branches

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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• Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Mps, Legislation, Whole

  "The dinosaur’s fresh meat". www.economist.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

  John Lennon

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

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• Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, School, Church

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Home, Kids

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• Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Ideas, Poetry

  Friedrich Schiller (1981). “On the naive and sentimental in literature”

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• Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

  George Steiner

  Hate, Believe, People

  Interview with D.J.R. Bruckner, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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