Blank Slates Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed…
— Marco Roth
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As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach,…
— Jeanne Moreau
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When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
— Erik Larson
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When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
— Wayne LaPierre
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Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined…
— Jane Brody
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Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate
— Ray Charles
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We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
— Kim Stanley
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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they…
— Juan Cole
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
— Alison Gopnik
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I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
— Tobey Maguire
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing…
— Roshon Fegan
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
— Ben Kingsley
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
— Steven Pinker
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The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the…
— Steven Pinker
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What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember…
— Jessica Valenti
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Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's…
— Julie Anne Peters
Who Wrote These Blank Slates Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Blank Slates Quotes as follows: