Errol Morris Quotes
There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
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I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
