The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
Most people aren’t good or bad. They’re naive.
She wasn’t as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.
When I made my first record, I was very naive, and I didn’t know much about production, and I had a very basic amount of equipment, and I was just digging through vinyl for samples in a very old-fashioned way. It was very loop-based and very cut and paste, and that’s the way I started out.
I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he’s a little naive, maybe, but he’s so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn’t go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
I was kind of ignorant. Being naive – ‘who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won’t count’ – that’s kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.
I’m not naive. It’s football. You’re going to make mistakes.
I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn’t have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does – his is in plain sight.
I was raised to please people in authority, and I’d also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
It might sound naive, but for me, you know, for me, the important part is kind of making process. So I’m not super result oriented, and I just, like, kind of getting lost in the process of making something.
While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.
It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.
Nice doesn’t mean ‘naive.’ Nice doesn’t mean ‘gullible.’ In my job, one of the most important things to be is decisive and firm.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I’m liberated.
Too often people view idealists as naive.
I’ve got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.
I could relate to the naive and young Bulbbul, before the character transforms. It was easier to understand her mind set and how she looked at things. But it was difficult to internalise her transformation. It was like playing two different personalities.
It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That’s attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.
People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists’ naive failure to grasp the importance of building strong economies.
We were naive in a lot of ways, but that was part of the charm. We were very young.
I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don’t think I am like that as a person.
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.
Maybe it’s that I’m naive, but I don’t think of myself as an age.
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I’m not naive and realise it doesn’t make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn’t good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.
If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That’s why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it’s quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to become an Anglo-American democracy overnight – just as it is naive to expect it in other parts of the world.
I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.
There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that’s like the start of electronic music – there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.
When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
I was so naive to think once you sign, it’s all good, and you are a superstar.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Why movie and dance critics are taking ‘The Company’ seriously, I can’t imagine. Are they impressed by Altman’s reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?
The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker – and because you have no experience yet, you’re much more naive and think anything is possible.
My dream was to play for Chelsea – maybe I was bit naive.
But at a certain point, and I don’t really know… people have asked me this. I don’t know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
I may sound naive, since everyone’s decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what’s happened over the years when there’s been divided government. That’s when we’ve done tax reform, that’s when we’ve done entitlement reform – to move this economy forward on these big issues.
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It’s very childish.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Everyone knows that life isn’t fair. Saying it’s not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.
It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn’t there.
A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don’t think I’m like that. And I’m not stupid!
Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became ‘pro’-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.’ s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
