Mindless Quotes - Page 2

• Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.

  Valerie Solanas

  Sex, Males, Culture

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

  Freida Pinto

  Thinking, Bollywood, Cinema

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• Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

  Aldous Huxley

  Money, Reading, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “The Devils Of Loudun”, p.368, Random House

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• Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Keys, Justice

  "Scorn not the Sonnet" l. 1 (1827)

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• I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

  Fred Durst

  Movie, Children, Years

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Acceptance, Math, Night

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

  Roger Penrose

  Understanding, Deals, Computation

  Roger Penrose (1994). “Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

  Paul Farmer

  Competition, Want, Resources

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Party, Gossip, Conversation

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• I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

  David Suchet

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Movie, Character, Special

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• The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Gun

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• All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

  Maria Konnikova

  Taken, Missing, Mind

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Determination, Work, Self

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

  Alan Lightman

  Machines, Hours, Conscious

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• Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

  Kathy Reichs

  Long, Mad, Robots

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.98, Penguin

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• The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

  Lou Dobbs

  Media, Ideas, Political

  Studio Briefing, movieweb.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he’d put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Husband, Struggle, Holiday

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• You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Blow, Order

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.67, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it.
  Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it:
  
  1, It's me and my Nation against the World
  2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation
  3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan
  4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation
  Go against the Fam until they cave in
  5, Now who's left in this deadly equation?
  
  That's right, it's me against my Brother
  Then we point a Kalashnikov
  And kill one another.

  K'naan

  Brother, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

  Douglas Adams

  Interesting, Challenges, Tedium

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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• And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Giving, Justice

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Desperate, Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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