Errol Morris Quotes

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

Errol Morris

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• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
  • Matter
  • Authority

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Lifestyle
  • Diet
  • Hospital

• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Growth

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

• If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Man
  • Black
  • Couple

• I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.

  

  Rajneesh

• The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sky

• Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Work
  • Together
  • Relationship

• I founded 'Point Hope' so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children who had no one to advocate for them, children who had no voice. Since I have been blessed with a voice on the radio each night, I thought I would use my celebrity position and my financial resources to help these kids.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Help

• In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • World
  • War
  • Parents

• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Education
  • Reasons
  • Lecture

• We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.

  

  Francisco Franco
  • Single

• The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

  

  Errol Morris
  • War
  • Reasons
  • Murderous