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
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono
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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
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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
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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
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny
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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
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Tavi Gevinson
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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
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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
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. Barnum
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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
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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
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
Adam Jones
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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
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I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
Margaret Fuller
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Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.
Barbara Crampton
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more obviously, the emails that she created, stored and sent with the server - would contain classified information.
Ken Cuccinelli
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
Errol Morris
