Louis Theroux Quotes

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

Louis Theroux

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Father

• Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Home
  • Creative
  • Prison

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Words
  • Alone

• For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Society
  • Law
  • Community

• On one side was the pain of the victims of the earthquake, and on the other the pain of the victims of the riots. In decisively confronting this great turmoil, I had to single-mindedly focus all the strength given to me by the almighty, on the task of peace, justice and rehabilitation; burying the pain and agony I was personally wracked with.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Single

• Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Education
  • Advice

• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Age
  • Science
  • Cold

• Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Earth

• I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kids

• I was incredibly supple and did gymnastics as well. So half of my injuries are because I am over-supple and the joints could always go that little bit further. But I was happy to push, and I have no regrets. That is important to say.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Gymnastics

• Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

  

  Plutarch
  • Words

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fear

• Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Feels

• The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

  

  Louis Theroux