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
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful… — John Lennon 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
I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I don't know about [Rex] Tillerson, but I do know that John Bolton doesn't get it. He still believes in regime change.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love… — Wil McCarthy Copy Share Image
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is a very naive view to think that the resources and conditions on earth would last forever. Our race has to… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think it's part of how people relate to Fleetwood Mac. In many ways, we've been too open and too truthful about… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
“Many women do not even have the basic teaching about predators that a wolf mother gives her pups, such as: if it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
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… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary,… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain 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] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They…” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7a/van-jones-984_america_i-ve-had-a-chance-to-meet-some-of-my-civ_727277.jpg)
![“On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh…” quote by William J. Duiker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6be/william-j-duiker-21821_1960s_on-many-occasions-in-the-late-1950s-and_865835.jpg)
![“I don't know about [Rex] Tillerson, but I do know that John Bolton doesn't get it. He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq war. He's promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran. So, I think John Bolton is so far out of it…” quote by Rand Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72a/rand-paul-606_assistants_i-don-t-know-about-rex-tillerson-but-i-d_358090.jpg)
