Errol Morris Quotes
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I love working with women.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.
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If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
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For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.
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I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
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Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
