Louis Theroux Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
-
I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
-
A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
-
My main focus is to help people through music.
-
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.
-
I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
-
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
-
Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
-
The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
-
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.
-
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
-
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.
-
Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.
-
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
-
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
-
I refuse to take shortcuts.
-
And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.
-
I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.
-
We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.
-
I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.
-
I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.
