When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
“He smiled, a real one this time, though his voice remained teasing. “So, what do you think I am?” Naive, I thought… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwillingness to learn one’s lesson. It is… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do… — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification,… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954;… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we… — Melina Matsoukas Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
“As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer… — shannon l. alder Copy Share Image
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can… — Feist Copy Share Image
I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions… — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
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