Errol Morris Quotes
All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov
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Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
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I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.
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We Are All in the Same Boat.
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Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''
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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
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I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
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I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
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I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.
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Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
