Errol Morris Quotes
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Quotes to Explore
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
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Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.
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My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.
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In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
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I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.
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I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!
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I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.
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As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
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By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.
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With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
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The period western doesn't have a lot to say to most people today.
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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
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The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
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Do you know why I'm thin? Because I'm hungry ALL the time!
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start - the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
