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.

Errol Morris

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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.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Want
  • Support

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Good
  • Think

• The score never interested me, only the game.

  

  Mae West
  • Game
  • Me
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Values

• 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.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Name
  • Pen

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • True
  • Learning

• I love the shock factors and that Michelle is just OK with every aspect of herself, especially the sexual side.

  

  Alyson Hannigan

• I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush

• Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Flatter

• Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Judgment
  • Springs

• 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.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Knowledge
  • Information
  • Television