Dennis DeYoung Quotes
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
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It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
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Even if you forget that's not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can't reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
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Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.
