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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... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
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When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.
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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
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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 have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
