Errol Morris Quotes

I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

Errol Morris

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• The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

  

  Kate Klise
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• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Long

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
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• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
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• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Up
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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Bad
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• To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
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• I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life.

  

  Jack Straw
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• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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• Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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• Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

  

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• I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

  

  Michelle Branch
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  • Pirate
  • Patches

• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Believe
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• You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

  

  Errol Morris
  • Advertising
  • Elections