All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Sincerity with innocence, though cute, though it makes good movies, makes for very bad government.
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
I think there’s an innocence to me.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there’s a certain innocence that goes.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
One of my favorite passages in ‘Leaves of Grass,’ that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is ‘Mannahatta.’
Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it’s killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little – the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
Innocence has died in Bollywood.
Hansa is very different from me as a person. But I fell in love with her because of her innocence.
Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you’ve got to prove your innocence. And that’s not the Constitution of the United States.
The ‘safe spaces’ for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and empowerment.
I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.
Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It’s a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.
I’ve been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don’t particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they’ve had whatever real innocence that’s in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It’s no good.
I regret losing my innocence so early.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
‘Good Times’ is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren’t.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
