Quotes About Open-mindedness

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

People are very quick to go, 'What is this nonsense?' if they've not seen something before and it's a bit different.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

You've got to quit judging people just because they have an 'R' or a 'D' in front of their name. We don't do that in Oklahoma.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

As a race car driver, you kind of get stereotyped into, 'Man, you like country' - or you got to say you like country. I do like a lot of country. But I'm all over the board.

In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.

The pulse of the youth is racing towards liberalization. And I'm truly loving it.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

You don't lose anything, in fact you gain a lot by having free-thinking people.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.