Errol Morris Quotes
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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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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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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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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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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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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I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
