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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• 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.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • High
  • Free
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Man
  • Gay
  • Personality

• In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Boat
  • Sailing

• When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work
  • Why
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Food

• I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Children

• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  

  Arthur Baer

• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  

  Karl Popper
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.

  

  David Weigel
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Errol Morris
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