Quotes About Open-mindedness

In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.

I'm just trying to do all kinds of films.

I have always enjoyed different kinds of music.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.

I just kind of go by the theory of, 'Don't knock it until you try it.'

I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

I've always been attracted to something that's a little bit left - Korean R&B, South African hip-hop. I'm really curious about my homies back in Jamaica, what are they listening to? I'm always searching.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.

I don't label films or actors, and labelling means setting boundaries. Why do you want to do that to art?

Don't label me before we get a chance to talk about it. Talk to me first and see what kind of person I am. That's what I like to tell the media: Come talk to me, let's sit down and talk about what's really going on.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

My only opinion on childbirth is not to have an opinion, and not to judge. We're all different and anything can happen when it comes to labour: you just don't know until you get there.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.

Being smart is handy, but if you aren't mentally agile, it doesn't get you anywhere but stuck in your own fact-ruts.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.