Naive Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

  David Graeber

  Looks, Answers, Revolution

  "Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?" by David Graeber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Sweet, Pie, Lessons

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• The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

  Ellie Kemper

  Thinking, Prejudice, Comedy

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

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• What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

  Etgar Keret

  Army, Thinking, People

  "Life at a louder volume". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

  Catherine Keener

  Thinking, People, Want

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• I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

  Richard Curtis

  Believe, Book, Candor

  Richard Curtis (2003). “How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Jesus, Doubt

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• Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

  Leon Uris

  Writing, Insane, Lines

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

  Vincent Piazza

  Ambition, Hockey, Nhl

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• The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

  Oliver Platt

  New York, Kids, Stage Actors

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

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

  Kathy Reichs

  Character, Thinking, Tvs

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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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• I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

  Julie Andrews

  Believe, And Love, Sound

  Photoplay, September 1973.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

  Richard Armitage

  America, People, Building Wealth

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• It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

  Julia Stiles

  Roles, Ophelia, Innocent

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• Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

  Lee Konitz

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Imagination

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• I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

  Paul Mooney

  Passionate, Passive

  "Funny Paul Mooney was born a comic" by Gregory Lewis, www.sfgate.com. October 6, 1995.

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