We tracked ‘Domestic Sweater’ live as a full band. It had been a while since we had even performed so in doing so, a sweet innocence arose, as though we were playing in our garage again.
When I’m singing, it’s a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It’s all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever’s coming out, you try and make it all cool.
I’m interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
I wrote ‘The Match,’ my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we’ve lost the ability to be blown away by music.
Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can’t be innocent forever, but there’s something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
High school is cool, especially that first-love mentality. That’s what ‘Sierra Burgess’ captures is, like, his first moment of love. That’s what I love. I like that innocence.
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you’re charming enough, you can get away with anything.
‘The Muppets’ is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope – and stupid gags.
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn’t do anything wrong, you can’t then use the Fifth Amendment to say, ‘I’m not answering questions.’
I loved ‘Matilda.’ The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there’s innocence contained in you but there’s also innocence in the process of being lost.
I love playing instruments that I don’t know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Sometimes I’ll be sitting with my friends; I’ll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don’t know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was ‘Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful when any supporters, including Trump, donated to my defense and spoke out about my innocence.
I didn’t do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don’t know if I can prove my innocence.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished – DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence – life in prison is a worthy substitute.
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
I’ve got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I’d love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – one can believe in Woody Allen’s innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I’ve always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
I wake up every day trying to hold on to my innocence. That is not a thing that has to do with age. That has to do with the life that you want to have and the perspective that you want to have on life. I do not want to become jaded or cynical.
Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus’ innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
I think it’s so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what’s going on, and no one has any idea what’s going on.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had more warmth and innocence compared to the other roles that I have acted. I think it was more special in terms of expressing the role.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they’d be easier.
When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, ‘This is my vision.’
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ or, for that matter, Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ to find out how destructive it can be.
I suppose there’s a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it’s the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying – these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights – human rights – that should be enjoyed by all.
