Errol Morris Quotes
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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Security services, from Afghanistan to the United States, should be alert throughout the Ramadan period, but especially on the 27th day of the holy month.
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I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.
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It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
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There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
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I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
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The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
