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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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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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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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.
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When I did my research on this topic, I came to the startling conclusion that the Federal Reserve System does not need to be audited - it needs to be abolished.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
