Louis Theroux Quotes
When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.
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I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
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When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
