Errol Morris Quotes
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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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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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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 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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To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
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The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.
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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
