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• It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Regret, Heart, Hands

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• I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

  Claude Debussy

  Children, Vision, Wish

  "Claude Debussy: His Life and Works". Book by Léon Vallas, p. 226, 1933.

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• The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Book, Men

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.592, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

  William Julius Wilson

  Government, Talking, Support

  Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. 1996.

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• Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Creative, Secret

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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• Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

  Karl E. Weick

  Mean, Winning, Issues

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• Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

  Dale Murphy

  Want, Certain, Glad

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• It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

  Janet McTeer

  Believe, Thinking, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Lying

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• At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

  Jack Wild

  Immature, Wish, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

  Benjamin Walker

  Careers, Ideas, Decision

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• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  Russell Baker

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Heartbroken, Mean, Sound

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• On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

  James Blunt

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  "Some Kind of Trouble and More". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

  Justin Bartha

  Acting, Actors, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

  Kim Wilde

  Choices, Grey, Mice

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• I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

  David Puttnam

  Soul, Cinema, Problem

  "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  Norman Tebbit

  Home, Sunset, Views

  The Independent, February 24, 1990.

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• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  Zadie Smith

  Political, Novelists, Insight

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• At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.

  Atul Gawande

  Caring, Medicine, Differences

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.10, Profile Books

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• I'm incredibly naive.

  Christina Ricci

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• This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Believe, Sound

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• When you are young, you are a little naive.

  Maria Sharapova

  Littles, Young

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• I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Peace, Thinking, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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