Errol Morris Quotes
Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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I love making lists.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
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I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
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We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
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Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
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I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
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I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.
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Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.
