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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

  Heraclitus

  Home, Son, Men

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• If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie.

  Dov Davidoff

  Memories, Valentine, Marketing

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 12, 2012

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• This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

  Susan Jacoby

  Tolerance, Roles, Levels

  FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

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• The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

  Fredric Jameson

  Fascination, Ends, Visuals

  Fredric Jameson (2013). “Signatures of the Visible”, p.1, Routledge

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• Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Dream, Running, Men

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

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• When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first.

  George Carlin

  Song, Philosophy, Worry

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• I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Needs, Littles, Rooms

  "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

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• No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

  Carol Tavris

  Sorry, People, Magic

  Carol Tavris (1989). “Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak thoughtfully to your children, from the time they are babies. Take their questions and ideas seriously... learning to speak and listen as if our words matter is fundamental to education. Dialogue is not the same as mindless chatter. Above all, listen, listen, and listen to your kids.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Baby, Children, Kids

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