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I became less naive and less childish. And maybe it has made me a little bit stronger. Because what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger, of course, only when you see this, you understand the value of life. And for me, this is 100%. – Yaryna Arieva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes. – Arash Azizzada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I want this action to expose an industry that protects celebrity offenders, to cleanse and hold accountable an industry that both exploited and allowed me to be exploited for years, along with so many other naïve and vulnerable kids and adults. – Julia Misley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We own that. I’m not naïve about our problems – homelessness. – Gavin Newsom	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are not naïve. We know there is room for improvement, and we have the flexibility to do it, but this text is a much better starting point than what we have now. – Vlado Mirosevic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They( the players) make bad decision, and this is football. It's a game of mistakes and we get punished, it's naïve how we played today. You have to play more direct. We attracted them ; space was high on the pitch... We will learn, we have to learn. But it's no good, it's quite clear at this level. – Ten Hag	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She obviously acknowledges having been naive but disputes any offense. – Charles Morel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Look, I'm not naive. I know tragedy will come again. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I understand the whole circumstance is very difficult, especially for the women’s side — the fans in this community. I ’m not naive to that, i know these allegations are very, very serious, but like I mentioned before, I’ve never assaulted any woman. I never disrespected any woman. I was raised by a single parent mom. … That’s who raised me. – Deshaun Watson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I understand the whole circumstance is very difficult, especially for the women’s side – the fans in this community. I’m not naive to that, i know these allegations are very, very serious but like I mentioned before, I’ve never assaulted any woman. I never disrespected any woman. I was raised by a single parent mom … that’s who raised me. – Houston Texans	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That was really important for us, even if it was naïve. – Oleksandr Kamyshin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant. A lot of words to describe that interaction with Shipnuck, it was just very surprising and disappointing. – Rory McIlroy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No one is naive, france, since the beginning of this crisis, has never made excessive statements on the subject, but in the same way I do not believe that this crisis can be resolved by a few hours of discussion. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was in complete shock when that Brat Pack thing came out, i was extremely naive on some of those interviews – and actually came off as a little bit stupid. I did n’t see it coming. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This question may seem naive and simple-minded. – Stephen Breyer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When other teams were postponing matches, we were killed and told do n’t be naïve because if you have that many players out do n’t play with your kids, now we postpone the match for all the right reasons, believe me, and we get this reaction but I think it is normal. – Mikel Arteta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we’re saying here, is, instead of for corporations, we’d like to find ways to lower taxes for the middle class so that they can afford child care, now, I’m not naive — I don’t think I’m going to say that and have Republicans say, ‘I’m on board,’ I think it is going to take a lot of work. – Jim Himes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're letting a noisy wing of our party define the rest of us. And my point is we can't do that, i think these people are all kind of nice people. I think they're very naive, and they're all into language and identity. And that's all right. They're not storming the Capitol. But they're not winning elections. – James Carville	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're not naïve in thinking President Biden can snap President Biden fingers and make everything change. But what comes out of your mouth is important. – Damon Hewitt	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I hope that Professor Abbott’s cancellation is one of the last if not the last. Maybe that’s a naïve hope, but I’m so heartened by the amazing support he’s gotten from all across the country. – Audrey Unverferth	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The outlook for policy in general and the U.S. specifically, both fiscal and monetary, is the more relevant factor in the market’s mind right now rather than the spread of the Delta variant, that may well prove to be naive or complacent. – James Athey	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The structure of our party politics now is more like the 19th century than the 20th, we are not going to have a regionally based civil war, the way they did in the 1860s. But it seems naive to expect that the way out of the present situation is going to be with the significant bipartisan cooperation of leadership in the two political parties. ... We can't even get the two political parties to agree to investigate a violent assault on the Capitol building itself. – Richard Primus	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I learned a lot along the way, i think I was so naive and uneducated in this whole area and I realized that I was not considering what Caitlyn Jenner was really feeling at the time which was she wanted to be who she is now from the time she was four years old. And that just wasn't communicated to me. – Kris Jenner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He hasn't missed anything that’s been slated, we’re not naïve. It’s just like any player that comes back from injury, especially a major joint injury. The first year back there’s going to be some things you have to work through. – Mike McCarthy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

I became less naive and less childish. And maybe it has made me a little bit stronger. Because what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger, of course, only when you see this, you understand the value of life. And for me, this is 100%.

– Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes.

– Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want this action to expose an industry that protects celebrity offenders, to cleanse and hold accountable an industry that both exploited and allowed me to be exploited for years, along with so many other naïve and vulnerable kids and adults.

– Julia Misley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We own that. I’m not naïve about our problems – homelessness.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are not naïve. We know there is room for improvement, and we have the flexibility to do it, but this text is a much better starting point than what we have now.

– Vlado Mirosevic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They( the players) make bad decision, and this is football. It's a game of mistakes and we get punished, it's naïve how we played today. You have to play more direct. We attracted them ; space was high on the pitch... We will learn, we have to learn. But it's no good, it's quite clear at this level.

– Ten Hag

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She obviously acknowledges having been naive but disputes any offense.

– Charles Morel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Look, I'm not naive. I know tragedy will come again.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I understand the whole circumstance is very difficult, especially for the women’s side — the fans in this community. I ’m not naive to that, i know these allegations are very, very serious, but like I mentioned before, I’ve never assaulted any woman. I never disrespected any woman. I was raised by a single parent mom. … That’s who raised me.

– Deshaun Watson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I understand the whole circumstance is very difficult, especially for the women’s side – the fans in this community. I’m not naive to that, i know these allegations are very, very serious but like I mentioned before, I’ve never assaulted any woman. I never disrespected any woman. I was raised by a single parent mom … that’s who raised me.

– Houston Texans

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That was really important for us, even if it was naïve.

– Oleksandr Kamyshin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Naive, selfish, egotistical, ignorant. A lot of words to describe that interaction with Shipnuck, it was just very surprising and disappointing.

– Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No one is naive, france, since the beginning of this crisis, has never made excessive statements on the subject, but in the same way I do not believe that this crisis can be resolved by a few hours of discussion.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was in complete shock when that Brat Pack thing came out, i was extremely naive on some of those interviews – and actually came off as a little bit stupid. I did n’t see it coming.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This question may seem naive and simple-minded.

– Stephen Breyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When other teams were postponing matches, we were killed and told do n’t be naïve because if you have that many players out do n’t play with your kids, now we postpone the match for all the right reasons, believe me, and we get this reaction but I think it is normal.

– Mikel Arteta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we’re saying here, is, instead of for corporations, we’d like to find ways to lower taxes for the middle class so that they can afford child care, now, I’m not naive — I don’t think I’m going to say that and have Republicans say, ‘I’m on board,’ I think it is going to take a lot of work.

– Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're letting a noisy wing of our party define the rest of us. And my point is we can't do that, i think these people are all kind of nice people. I think they're very naive, and they're all into language and identity. And that's all right. They're not storming the Capitol. But they're not winning elections.

– James Carville

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're not naïve in thinking President Biden can snap President Biden fingers and make everything change. But what comes out of your mouth is important.

– Damon Hewitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I hope that Professor Abbott’s cancellation is one of the last if not the last. Maybe that’s a naïve hope, but I’m so heartened by the amazing support he’s gotten from all across the country.

– Audrey Unverferth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The outlook for policy in general and the U.S. specifically, both fiscal and monetary, is the more relevant factor in the market’s mind right now rather than the spread of the Delta variant, that may well prove to be naive or complacent.

– James Athey

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The structure of our party politics now is more like the 19th century than the 20th, we are not going to have a regionally based civil war, the way they did in the 1860s. But it seems naive to expect that the way out of the present situation is going to be with the significant bipartisan cooperation of leadership in the two political parties. ... We can't even get the two political parties to agree to investigate a violent assault on the Capitol building itself.

– Richard Primus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I learned a lot along the way, i think I was so naive and uneducated in this whole area and I realized that I was not considering what Caitlyn Jenner was really feeling at the time which was she wanted to be who she is now from the time she was four years old. And that just wasn't communicated to me.

– Kris Jenner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He hasn't missed anything that’s been slated, we’re not naïve. It’s just like any player that comes back from injury, especially a major joint injury. The first year back there’s going to be some things you have to work through.

– Mike McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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