Quotes About Open-mindedness

I'm one of those designers who can be inspired by absolutely anything, anywhere in the world.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

I don't despise people.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I don't really despise anyone.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.

I want people to understand you just can't wish hard on anybody just because they have different beliefs than you.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

I would rather know about different cultures, read about them, and understand them than just blindly follow their rituals. All cultures in India have their own logic.

Because I've seen so many different cultures, I can carry off anything comfortably and with confidence, even dhotis and lungis.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I've always liked a lot of different kinds of music.

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

We don't want to raise sheltered children. They should see different parts of the country, and they should experience things.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

I thought it was crazy for people to eat dirt until I actually tasted it. I really liked it!

I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.