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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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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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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We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt government and the prejudicial media, change would be quite easy. All it takes is courageous, fearless, unique individuals to make substantive change in this world. Unfortunately, there are very few courageous and fearless people.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
