Errol Morris Quotes

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa Dorfman. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

Errol Morris

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• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Song
  • Hurt

• Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • You
  • Ignorance
  • Embrace

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Enjoy

• I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Carry

• Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Night
  • Islam

• I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Model
  • Singer

• I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.

  

  Banks
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• ...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Time
  • Mistake

• We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • College

• I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Kids

• It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Life
  • Health
  • Resilience

• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  

  Alice Hamilton
  • Believe
  • Chicago
  • Irish

• When I start training, I get very serious and focused about it. I probably train 4-5 days a week, and I eat probably eat 5-8 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going.

  

  Ciara
  • Small
  • Serious
  • Training

• I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

  

  Jose James
  • Listening
  • Holiday

• Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Children

• Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• I am a consummate metaphor addict.

  

  Jason Reynolds

• I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa Dorfman. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Work
  • Personality
  • I Believe