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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My office is definitely an extension of my personality. I spend more time here than anywhere else, so it's important that it reflects my style and that it's an inspiring place to think - although it's admittedly impossible to keep clean with a gazillion beauty products coming in and out all the time.
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The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.
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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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.
