Errol Morris Quotes

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

Errol Morris

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Find

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Be kind

• Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Why

• Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Believe
  • True
  • Science

• I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Up
  • Growing

• Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

  

  Amy Chozick

• I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Pain
  • Regret

• At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.

  

  Amber Valletta

• When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The truth is overrated.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Truth

• Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Different
  • May
  • Truth

• ...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Opinions
  • Imagined

• We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

  

  Eve Curie
  • Life
  • War
  • Fear

• The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Insanity
  • Considered