Quotes About Open-mindedness

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

It takes a lot to shock me.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.

When fans say 'Bala,' that's cultural awareness to me. I hope I've helped open up their world a little.

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.

In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn't have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

I like to be around people that's not afraid to be different.

You have to be prepared to go along the way life takes you.

It's not that I think every late 19th-century man with a beard who saw something shimmering in front of him was actually seeing his dead aunty. What I'm saying is: lighten up. This isn't weird stuff. It's interesting.

I'm becoming more adventurous.

I'm a Sagittarius and I love adventure and new beginnings, new experiences, because it makes me feel like I'm living.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

It's really wrong to judge someone because of their beliefs.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.