Open Minded Quotes - Page 10

• We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Past, People, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

  Nicki Minaj

  Growing Up, Fun, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

  D.A. Wallach

  Integrity, Independent, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.

  Cindy McCain

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I really wanted to raise my boys in a place where 'celebrity' wasn't important, and where I could be closer to where I grew up (upstate NY). I love it here - it reminds me of my childhood. It seems more open minded and inclusive, and I love the seasons.

  Lauren Holly

  Boys, Childhood, Important

  "Lauren Holly: Why I Raise My Kids In Canada". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 14, 2014.

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  Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

  John Wayne

  Down And, Speak, Ifs

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.13, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Mean, Civilization

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Sight, White

  "2016 candidates, it's time to talk about race". Hillary Clinton's speech at the 83rd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors, www.cnbc.com. June 26, 2015.

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• You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Brain, Want

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• Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

  John Dewey

  Alertness, Process, Retention

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.135, SIU Press

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• For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Opportunity, Effort, Certain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Listening, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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• The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Republican, Reason, Enlightened

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• The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most open-minded and willing to think about it.

  Bernd Becher

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

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• We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

  Harri Holkeri

  Decision, Political, Way

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• ...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Believe, Writing

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• Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

  Bill Gates

  People, Done, Way

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• People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, Religious, Writing

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.

  Seymour Hersh

  Fields, Debate, National Security

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.

  Chris Baio

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Religious, Art

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• The important thing for me is, and what I'd like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you'd find some pretty interesting things there.

  Tyler Perry

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Football, Passion, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Views, Practice

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• I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Political, Important

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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