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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas S. Szasz
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them
Gerald Brenan
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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I`m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn`t understand, she had to explain: `That`s like three Mercedes.` Then I understood. (1981)
Brooke Shields
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. I thought that would be nirvana. I think of myself as an actor. If other people want to pigeonhole me, if they want to think of me as a big deal or a medium d...
Oliver Platt
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Acting, for me, is the last vestige of doing something that I would like to feel really naive about. - Interview, November 1995.
Holly Hunter
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I loved that this girl was mature in some ways, and naive in other ways. Juno is different from what we normally see in films about teenagers -- but at the same time she has a lot in common with most of the people I knew in high school. There are a lot of...
Ellen Page
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On making "The Lord of the Rings": "Looking back, I think we were a bit naive. At the beginning I don`t think anybody had any idea how difficult or complicated it would be. We somehow went into it thinking we could do it. And then we`ve stumbled along jus...
Peter Jackson
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When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don`t have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there`s usually someone there to help you do that!
Andy Taylor
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When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.
Kim Wilde
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When I look back now I wouldn`t say that I cringe, but I start to realise how naive I was then. I feel much better suited to the job now.
Andrei Sharonov
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Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.
Richard Reeves
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We have security alarms; it`s like trying to rob a bank, we know when someone tries to get in here. You`d have to be pretty naive to think a place like this didn`t have alarms.
Paul White
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Alex Polimemi
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Allen Johnson
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Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
John Ralston Saul
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Too naive ... We keep beating ourselves. We know soccer doesn`t end until the referee blows the whistle and we`ve just got to keep working and not make so many mistakes. . . . It`s a slap in the face to wake us up and realize there are people out there th...
Jaime Moreno
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don`t know what it`s like.
Catherine Keener
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The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration.
Alejandro Moreno
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The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn`t think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.
Paul Bettany
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The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made `em both a little bit naive.
E.Y. Harburg
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The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it`s dangerous.
George Allen
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That taught me one lesson which is that you`re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
Billy Bragg
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That taught me one lesson which is that you`re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
Billy Bragg
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That taught me one lesson which is that you`re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
Ernie Pyle
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That taught me one lesson which is that you`re naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
Ernie Pyle
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Simon`s almost naive in a sense. They live in a world where people have to be selfish and fight for themselves. In that regard, he`s toughened up by the crew.
Sean Maher
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Rich was just such a difficult person to deal with. He wanted to run the show. I was pretty naive.
Anjessa Evans
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Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn`t know what the words meant.
River Phoenix
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