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African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. -- Jill Scott
I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters. -- Jason Reitman
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. -- Martha Stewart
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. -- Chellie Pingree
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. -- Rupert Sheldrake
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things. -- Marilyn Manson
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -- Richard Dawkins
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. -- Adam Lambert
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. -- Thomas Cochrane
I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
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
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. -- Nick Cave
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being. -- Kevin Eubanks
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. -- Simon Sinek
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor. -- Patti Smith
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded. -- Pam Ferris
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. -- Herman Cain
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like. -- Henry Cavill
I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist. -- Tom Odell
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. -- Michelle Obama
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy! -- Suzanne Brockmann
I'm very open-minded. -- Gabrielle Reece
Only open-minded deserves the truth. -- Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
It is increasingly important to be open-minded. -- Tucker Carlson
You know, people aren't always the most open-minded. -- Miguel
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about. -- Mason Cooley
You mustn't be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Susan Cheever
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. -- David Bailey
I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead. -- Donna Air
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded. -- Bong Joon-ho
Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve. -- John Wooden
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. -- Richard Dawkins
If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top. -- Uri Geller
As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone. -- Jake Shields
I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. -- Maajid Nawaz
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. -- Groucho Marx
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded. -- Alexis Hunter
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. -- Harri Holkeri
I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people. -- Jon Foreman
I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. -- James Denton
I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl. -- Gal Gadot
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out! -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you. -- George W. Bush
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say. -- A. J. McLean
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded? -- Unarine Ramaru
Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all. -- Chris Weidman
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. --
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. -- Bryant H. McGill
I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all. -- Cindy McCain
Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with." -- Angela Johnson
Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow! -- Cassandra Clare
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women. -- Christian Rudder
I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge. -- Sarah Polley
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -- Charles Kettering
Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out. -- Tucker Max
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it. -- Alexis Ohanian
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on. -- John Patrick Hickey
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful. -- Bonnie Bassler
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. -- Jewel
Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things. -- Henry H. Bauer
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. -- Suzanne Brockmann
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win. -- Arsene Wenger
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. -- Tom Ford
There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven. -- Toba Beta
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. -- Christopher Hitchens
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. -- Rob Sheffield
You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
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
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
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can. -- Macaulay Culkin
Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open. -- Rick James
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play. -- Sean Hayes
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. -- Amos Oz
Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder. -- Gabor Mate
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt. -- Kacey Musgraves
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn. -- A.J. Darkholme
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind. -- Auberon Waugh
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
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
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
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
I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all. -- Casey Neistat
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life. -- Kathryn Prescott
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
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas. -- Ziggy Marley
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person. -- Daniel Gilbert
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
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works. -- Franz Grillparzer
Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening. -- A.J. Darkholme
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. -- Bainbridge Colby
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place. -- Gin Wigmore
I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading. -- Russell Simmons
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
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
Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate. -- Paul Douglas
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructores but form the very life experience itself. -- Haile Selassie
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. -- Sonia Braga
I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded. -- Ryan Holmes
We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out. -- Michael Shermer
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
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,than the limitations society tries to place upon them. -- Robert M. Hensel
Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be. -- Doug Sweetland
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded. -- Jason Reitman
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Can we go back to the part about Moroi girls hanging out in LA?" asked Adrian hopefully. "Can you direct me to some of the"¦oh, let's say, more open-minded ones? -- Richelle Mead
Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again. -- Emma Watson
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
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation. -- Anthony Carmona
I guess if everything went tits up, having no work whatsoever, obviously you have to do something else. At the moment I don't see myself quitting, but I'm open minded about it. -- Max Irons

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