Errol Morris Quotes
We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
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Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.
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Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.
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We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.
