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• Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Home, Kids

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• Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

  George Steiner

  Hate, Believe, People

  Interview with D.J.R. Bruckner, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

  Bruce Feiler

  Writing, Library, Eras

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• Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Real, Ideas, Poetry

  Friedrich Schiller (1981). “On the naive and sentimental in literature”

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• Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time,' and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked. 'We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a nasty horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for.' Right? Crying for it wasn't enough.

  John Lennon

  Beautiful, Baby, Children

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• Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

  Sarah Palin

  War, Waiting, Ems

  "Sarah Palin’s Cpac Speech Shows She Hasn’t Lost It". www.newsweek.com. February 27, 2015.

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• The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

  Joichi Ito

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Sweet, Pie, Lessons

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• Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

  David Graeber

  Looks, Answers, Revolution

  "Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?" by David Graeber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

  Sandy Duncan

  War, Thinking, Kind

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• Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"George R.R. Martin", www.youtube.com. August 06, 2011.

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• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  Wil McCarthy

  Crush, Strong, Love Is

  Wil McCarthy (2009). “The Collapsium”, p.319, Bantam

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• The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

  David Luiz

  Player, Piano, Consistency

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• My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

  Mika

  Childhood, Records, Fairytale

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

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• Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

  Rene Russo

  Thinking, Age

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• After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

  John F. Kerry

  Order, Years, Giving

  John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

  Julie Andrews

  Believe, And Love, Sound

  Photoplay, September 1973.

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• I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

  M. Ward

  Artist, Ideas, America

  Vanity Fair, August 2006.

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• As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Kings, Son, Thinking

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

  Jiang Zemin

  Simple, News, Way

  "Leader of China Angrily Chastises Hong Kong Media" by Mark Landler, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2000.

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• Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Believe, Favour, Ifs

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• I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

  Wade Guyton

  Money, Art, New York

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• Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Mps, Legislation, Whole

  "The dinosaur’s fresh meat". www.economist.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

  Miuccia Prada

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, War, Writing

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