Louis Theroux Quotes

As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.

Louis Theroux

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• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sweet

• When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Bother
  • Turned

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Death
  • End
  • Perspective

• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dance

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Great
  • Music
  • Hand

• I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• The number of saints, a synod without desire, From God the divine prophesy. In every tongue they compose, About the earth they were, And so many wisely prophesied Christ, and before he was, they were.

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • Earth
  • Desire

• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

  

  Aesop
  • May

• Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • History
  • Desire
  • Wise

• Otra vez mno quisiera nada. Ni una madre quisiera otra vez.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Those who say that without the monarchy Britain would be a banana republic are closing their eyes to the banana republic features which the cult of monarchy necessitates. Dazzled by the show, moreover, they may be missing other long-run tendencies towards banana-dom which it is the partial function of monarchy to obscure.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Long
  • May
  • Eyes

• I feel better training in Brazil.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Training

• Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Imagination

• People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

  

  Marian Seldes
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • History
  • Value
  • Present

• Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wisdom
  • Speech
  • Governs

• Oh, to know God's private address.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Addresses

• As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.

  

  Louis Theroux