Errol Morris Quotes

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

Errol Morris

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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Design

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart

• My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Mother

• I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • World
  • Long
  • Experience

• I think Beyonce always looks great.

  

  Lily James
  • Great

• Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

  

  Martin Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Fate
  • Mysterious

• I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Food

• Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Food

• I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Strong

• Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Up
  • Political

• I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

  

  Bryan White
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Together
  • Yoga

• What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Men
  • Ivory
  • Primitive Man

• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Free
  • Respect

• I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • Done

• I think for the wounded, ill and injured warriors, they need the best possible care that we can give them - a continuum of care that not only started on the battlefield and extended all the way to the wonderful medical facilities that we have here in the United States - but beyond.

  

  James A. Winnefeld, Jr.

• One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Family
  • Pleasures
  • Farmland

• This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Humanity
  • Destroyed
  • Selection

• I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Excuses
  • Wondered
  • Explanations