Louis Theroux Quotes

Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.

Louis Theroux

Truth

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann
- People
- Great
- Truth
Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Yanis Varoufakis
- Life
- Truth
- Game
I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

Eamonn Walker
- Truth
- Myself
- Acting
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

Oriana Fallaci
- Truth
- You
- Journalism
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Dag Hammarskjold
- Truth
- Support
- Truth Is
As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

Pamela Meyer
- People
- Believe
- Truth