Naive Quotes
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In the '60s and '70s people were a little bit more naive and trusting and got in people's cars without thinking about it.
Boti Bliss -
It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
Ian Paisley
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If anything is naive and lightweight, it's the traditional political conversation.
Marianne Williamson -
I heard you’re gonna leave me. I’ve known it for a while. I wasn’t naive to the news. My mind just couldn’t walk a mile.
Boyz II Men -
The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.
Lisa Unger -
We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.
John Gates -
When you first break into the music scene, everyone is so naive. I was only nineteen when i started happening whith 'Charly' and I was so into the rave scene - apart from hip hop, I was blind to everything else.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy -
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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College grads are an endlessly naive bunch who believe that suffering will transform them into the kind of well-rounded human beings their suburban upbringings failed to make them.
Chuck Thompson -
The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.
Chuck Klosterman -
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 The Beatles -
What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.
Robbie Williams Take That -
I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
Nathan Englander -
I'm not big on women looking naive.
Alexander McQueen
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I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
Sandy Duncan -
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Neil Postman -
Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.
Benjamin B. Ferencz -
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
Steven Spielberg -
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan -
I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
Roy Keane
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Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
Stephenie Meyer -
I'm a little less naive when it comes to relationships.
Nicholas Braun -
We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
Benjamin B. Ferencz