When was the last time you changed your mind about something?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

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I guess my learning about regulatory strategies is much better now, and I may have designed many clinical trials differently - for example, oral insulin.

Nikita Puri, Business Standard, 23 April 2016 source ↗

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I vowed never to marry, but we got married as soon as we could after lockdown. I used to think it was patriarchal but when same-sex marriage became legal, I thought: OK, great, this institution has finally changed.
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Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
When I was younger, I thought that was all you needed. If you understand physics, how hard can it be to run a team? The idea that some skills, like managing people, are not correlated with scientific IQ — in fact some of them are negatively correlated to scientific IQ — took me a while to figure out.
Recorded Times of India editors, TOI Guest Editor interview, The Times of India, 17 November 2017 source ↗
Leelee Kimmel American actress and artist
I used to use the brush before that time before 2015, but then I gave it up for a while. Now I’m back on the brush, so that’s the truth.
Recorded Phong H. Bui, Interview, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2024 source ↗

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