Naive Quotes · Page 21

When Hillary Clinton ran against Senator [Barack] Obama she thought him naive because he thought it was a good idea to talk…

— Bernie Sanders

Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or…

— Tamsin Egerton

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain…

— Bethany McLean

I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was…

— Sia Furler

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know…

— Gia Coppola

My dream was to play for Chelsea - maybe I was bit naive.

— Patrick Bamford

I'm not big on women looking naive.

— Alexander McQueen

Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it…

— Ravi Gomatam

We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans…

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive…

— Carl Hart

Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.

— Ludwig von Mises

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.…

— Chinua Achebe

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith…

— Simon Schama

I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.

— Arija Bareikis

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

“These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.”

— Anthony Liccione

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble they usually call…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

— W. C. Fields

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of…

— Reince Priebus

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war.…

— Thom Yorke

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's…

— Andrew Eldritch

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

If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume we would not suffer too.

— Ant McPartlin

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,…

— Douglas Sirk