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 love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• 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

• Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Happiness

• 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

• Every dog has its day, dogAnd today, dog, just ain't yours.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Today
  • Dog

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

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Practice

• All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Control

• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Animal

• At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• 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
  • Political
  • Issues
  • Filmmakers