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• Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  Ameen Rihani

  Mother, Father, Ignorance

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Orthodoxy, Faults

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.

  Oliver DeMille

  Running, Team, Attachment

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• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our government documents, a "fact" that has never, ever been supported to my knowledge. So, that's the second factor.

  Ted Gup

  Government, Views, Facts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?

  Mark Sanchez

  Jobs, Winning, Heavyweights

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• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Country

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• Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

  Lawrence Jackson

  Sports, Football, Innovation

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• In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Sacrifice, Russia, People

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• Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Want, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mean, Hard Work, Sick

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

  Isabel Allende

  Warrior, Gun, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.

  George Carlin

  Song, Baby, Children

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.

  Jay Sean

  Moving, Believer, Make A Move

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. April 21, 2010.

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• The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.

  Ted Gup

  White, House, Healthy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Strange, Swedish, Equal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Europe, Culture Religion, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

  Naomi Oreskes

  People, Environmental, Damage

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

  Steve Case

  Impact, Talking, Break Through

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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• An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

  Ryan Gander

  Appreciation, Space, Shakes

  "Art-Advising in 3 Acts". Interview with Alexandra Pechman, www.vulture.com. December 19, 2014.

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• There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Real, Men, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."

  Finn Wittrock

  Sweet, Jobs, Children

  Source: collider.com

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• You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

  Finn Wittrock

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: collider.com

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