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?".
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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.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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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.
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This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life.
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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
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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.
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Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
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I believe that every human being endowed with intelligence, memory, and strength of character bears within him a little of thc supernatural as well. The highest purpose of the conductor is to release this superhuman potential in every one of his musicians.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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The Library is the heart of the University.
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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?".
