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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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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It the city Berlin stinks of perfume, they have water on their brains and they live as food for bacilli and shamelessly like dogs.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.
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I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.
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Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
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It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
