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• ...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Filled Up, Giving

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• You kill -- You die." That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.

  Robert Kirkman

  Way, Facts, Said

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• I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Oxford, Filled Up

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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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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• I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

  Damon Albarn

  Fun, Believe, Government

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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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• Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girl, Strong, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

  Brian Lamb

  Simple, Intellectual, Sound

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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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• The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

  George Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Appeasement

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• It is a very naive view to think that the resources and conditions on earth would last forever. Our race has to take necessary steps to be able to develop the technology necessary to live on other planets and moons and to reach to farther corners of the galaxy.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Thinking, Moon, Technology

  Source: scienceblog.com

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• The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.

  Moshe Arens

  Crazy, Thinking, Iowa

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

  Frida Kahlo

  Ideas, Forever, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Hatred, Important

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

  David Foster Wallace

  Giving, Arches, Lines

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."

  Mike Royer

  Thinking, Guy, Doe

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Challenges, Twenties

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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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• You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.

  Nicholas Braun

  Littles

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

  Moby

  World, Levels, Spirituality

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.

  Susan Schneider

  Cities, Immature, Age

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it.

  Carole King

  Thinking, Fearless, Want

  "Carole King: The 'Fresh Air' Interview". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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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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