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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 pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
Steven Pinker
Happiness
Life
Nature
Liberty
Totalitarianism
Argument
Human Nature
Recognition
Dream
Totalitarian
Strongest
Blank
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Blank Slate
Doctrine
May
Human
Against
Innate
Slate
Universal
Humans
Desires
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.
Edgar Wright
Character
People
Thought
Some People
Reading
Awesome
Kind
See
Some
About
Blank
Blank Slate
Like
Schools
Himself
Pilgrim
Comics
Scott
Interesting
Themselves
Believes
Second
Slate
Two
Imagine
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
Extremely
Structured
Blank
Blank Slate
Written
Highly
Also
Brain
Stone
Either
Flexible
Slate
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
Ben Kingsley
Hope
God
Myself
Creative
Try
Blank
Blank Slate
Almost
Reduce
Am
Slate
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss
Culture
Own
Everybody
Project
Way
Blank
Onto
Blank Slate
Read
Sort
Fantasy
Slate
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
Erik Larson
Book
Finish
Blank
Blank Slate
Never
Ideas
Lined
Up
Whenever
Start
Slate
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
Jane Goldman
Character
You
Sense
Relate
Bit
More
Blank
Blank Slate
Main
Main Character
POV
Often
Want
Slate
Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.
Joe Madureira
Sometimes
Having
Daunting
Blank
Blank Slate
Exciting
Slate
I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.
Kristen Schaal
You
Animals
Farm
Guess
Say
Hung
Out
Puppets
About
Blank
Blank Slate
Like
Least
Go
Being
Want
Anything
Them
Even
Why
Slate
Zoo
Imagine
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
Leigh Whannell
Time
Writing
Nothing
Blank
Blank Page
Blank Slate
Writing Process
Been
Stone
Where
Process
Page
Slate
Set
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
Masi Oka
You
Yourself
Opportunity
Thought
College
Be Yourself
Other
Saw
Brown
Individual
Blank
Blank Slate
Had
Allowed
Like
Know
Schools
Because
Said
Got
Go
Friends
Going
Just
Different
Different Schools
Unique
Chose
Slate
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
Petra Collins
Time
Home
Space
Mind
Live
Changing
Blank
Blank Slate
Come
Aesthetic
Fixed
Just
Slate
Need
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 all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
Roshon Fegan
Life
Me
People
My Life
Nothing
Bad
Bad Habit
Habit
Blank
Blank Slate
Had
Freestyle
Most
Hip-Hop
Doing
Been
Break
Which
Start
Slate
Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.
Stephen J. Dubner
You
Half
Think
Society
Way
Bit
Willing
Only
Habits
Blank
Blank Slate
Rethink
Individuals
Come
Hour
Like
Know
Biases
Make
Child
May
Acknowledge
Decisions
Little
Little Bit
Aside
Help
Large
Things
Slate
Set
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
Steven Pinker
Great
Simple
Mind
Fact
Blank
Blank Slate
Doctrine
Equals
Mathematical
Appeal
Zero
Slate
'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
Walt Dohrn
You
Heart
World
About
Color
Blank
Blank Slate
Mythology
Device
Like
Liked
Talked
How
His
Lot
Up
Ended
Then
Show
Using
Growing
Slate
Pulling
As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype that is being scrutinized or that is being assumed when we come through the curtain.
Xavier Woods
People
Assumed
Other
Our
Some
Through
Blank
Blank Slate
Stereotype
Come
Sort
Always
May
Being
Curtain
While
Scrutinized
Start
Slate
Position
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