Errol Morris Quotes
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
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I think that the issue here is a fundamental fairness in having a hearing so that these issues can be explored and concerns can be raised.
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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
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Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful
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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
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Without charity, there is no salvation.
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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
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Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
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I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.
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I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.
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What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
