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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Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.
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And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you’re closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.
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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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Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
