Errol Morris Quotes
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
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I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
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It almost felt like it was my dad back there. My dad was the same way in the driveway.
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When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
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Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
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I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.
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We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
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When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.
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Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
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I listen to The Beatles, we both with Abilities listen to everything.
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
