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“I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.”

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Author:Idris Elba

“If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Eubanks

“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.”

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Author:Shannon Leto

“I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.”

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Author:Frida Giannini

“A closed mind is a dying mind.”

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Book:George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays

Source: George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays

“I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.”

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Author:Jim Courier

“When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.”

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Author:Gregory D. Brenneman

“My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.”

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Author:Casey Affleck

“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.”

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Author:Johnny Galecki

“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.”

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Author:Antoine Fuqua

“If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.”

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Author:Vinod Khosla