Louis Theroux Quotes
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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Enough of labels, show your intent with word and deed.
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Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
