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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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it life is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.
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Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
