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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How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.
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Paul Newman's half Jewish and Florence Henderson's half, too Put them together, What a fine looking Jew!
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
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Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
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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.
