Louis Theroux Quotes
I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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… let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's
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'Often,' he says, 'what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.'
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I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.
