Errol Morris Quotes
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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I like to improvise.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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[Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's over with now. I'm going to make wifehood my career."
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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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I think music plays into my faith in the way of allowing me to always feel connected.
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Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.
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What do you call frozen dog poo?
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
