Open Minded Quotes - Page 5

• Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

  Peter James

  Police, Close Minded, Officers

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Islam

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Logic, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Contributing to others, not converting others, but for those who are interested, going where invited, speaking when asked, teaching when asked and so on, not proselytizing and missionary-izing. Not shoving the truth down people's throats, as if we know what's good for them. But being open when asked, when appropriate, and being very inclusive and open minded.

  Surya Das

  Teaching, People, Missionary

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

  Adam McKay

  People, Musician, Directors

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Political, Enemy, Esp

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• Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

  Byron Katie

  Children, Lying, People

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

  Angelina Jolie

  Race, People, Judging

  "A Mighty Heart - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

  Johnny Galecki

  Character, Play, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2010.

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• When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

  Gregory D. Brenneman

  Running, Views, Issues

  "Online Extra: Burger King's Brenneman: 'Why Not?'". Interview with Brian Grow, www.bloomberg.com. November 8, 2004.

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• I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

  Frida Giannini

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

  Dave Barry

  Atheist, Dad, People

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• To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.

  Shannon Leto

  Way, Should, Grows

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• If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ideas, Ifs

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• I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Fall, Reality

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• Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

  Tilopa

  Letting Go, Thinking, Echoes

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• I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Artist, Thinking, Knows

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

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• In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Korean, Film, Industry

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• People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

  Kunal Nayyar

  People, Safety, Risk

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

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• The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Media, Landscape, Nimble

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• As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.

  Jake Shields

  Mma, Long, Stuff

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• Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

  Chris Weidman

  Thinking, Continuing To Learn, Mma

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• The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Strong, Children

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Politics, Politician

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

  Robert Genn

  Integrity, Butterfly, Winning

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