Errol Morris Quotes

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

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• Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Platform

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• Being a bad guy is fun for me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Long
  • Community

• There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Know

• Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Value
  • Politics
  • Ignorant

• If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Day

• All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Joy

• I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Service

• I'm very wary of trust, you see.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Trust

• The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

  

  Ken Liu
  • World
  • Power
  • Age

• I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Comedy

• It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • World
  • Light

• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Integrity

• There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

  

  Donald Knuth

• For me, my one thing is eyelash extensions. I always have them on cause they just do all the work and let everything look better. If I have eyelash extensions on, I will put on some under eye concealer and maybe, like, an illuminating moisturizer and call it a day.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Work

• The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

  

  John Hurt
  • Fun
  • Science

• My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Married
  • Singer
  • Bands

• The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Moment
  • Irrevocably

• I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Calling
  • Compliment