Errol Morris Quotes
We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.Errol Morris
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
Olivia De Havilland -
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
Larry Hagman -
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
Zadie Smith
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
Nat Wolff -
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips -
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy -
I've got an opinion on everything.
T. Boone Pickens
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
Patrick White -
Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
Eliezer Yudkowsky -
Back when a hoe was a hoe.Coke was a coke.And crack's what you were doing.When you were cracking jokes.Back when a screw was a screw.The wind was all that blew.And when you said I'm down with that.Well, it meant you had the flu.I miss back when.I miss back when.I miss back when.
Tim McGraw -
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
Janis Karpinski
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I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.
Matt Cameron Pearl Jam -
Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing without beginning or end.
Elaine Cunningham -
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
George Gurdjieff -
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
George Clooney -
Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.
Bisco Hatori -
We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
Errol Morris