Louis Theroux Quotes
Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.
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Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.
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Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.
