Louis Theroux Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
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President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.
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Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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I refuse to take shortcuts.
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And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.
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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.
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What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody 'journalists' look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?
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There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
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Sometimes we carry mistakes we haven't even made yet.
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I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.
