John Gates Quotes

We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.

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• I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Want
  • Stereotype
  • Naive

• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • America
  • Reality
  • Alone

• You cannot play naive if you're not.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • You
  • Play
  • Naive

• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Taxes
  • Consequences

• I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Inside
  • Purity
  • Naive

• You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

  

  Kurt Braunohler

• We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

  

  David Crane
  • Writing
  • She
  • Game

• Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Life
  • Live

• We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

  

  Charlie Brooker

• I would love to get shredded or whatever you want to call it, but at the same time, I really enjoy treating myself to a cheat meal more than once a week. I'll eat a piece of bread, or I'll drink a beer, and I'll have fun with my friends. For me, it's really more about being healthy than it is about gaining 40 lbs. of muscle.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Great
  • War
  • English

• When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Life
  • Career
  • Black

• During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

  

  Jim Walton
  • War
  • Technology
  • Moving

• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Time

• We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  

  John Howard
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Political

• I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Purple

• If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
  • Important
  • Looks

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

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writing
  • Insane
  • Naive

• If you're in music for the right reasons, you don't pay much attention to the grueling industry. For sure, it's great to have your work appreciated, but it should never be the driving factor. If you don't depend solely on affirmation from the industry to continue to find love in what you do, then you can have as along of a career as you want. I've always been in this for the music and that won't change.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Music
  • Career
  • Attention

• You don't go to some other country and bash our president.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • President
  • Bash

• The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

  

  Tony Danza
  • Access
  • Clients
  • Publicists

• If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

  

  Nikolay Dobrolyubov
  • Individual
  • Conviction
  • Indifferent

• The instructed noble disciple knows of an escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. Since he does not seek delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling does not lie behind this. He understands as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings. Since he understands these things, the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling does not lie behind this.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Pleasure
  • Escape
  • Tendency

• We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.

  

  John Gates
  • Messages
  • Naive