Innocent Quotes
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December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight. More and more he stares into the night, Becoming less and less concerned with ends, Emblem of the innocent as sage Restored to wonder by what he must yield.
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
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I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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God made all pleasures innocent.
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.
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You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.
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The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.
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Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innocent.
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
