Errol Morris Quotes
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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Tell the truth.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
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I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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Just because the left has ignored and disparaged truth for years is no excuse for the right to do so as well. And unfortunately, truth-free politics seems to be growing exponentially on the right.
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The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
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Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
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My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
