Louis Theroux Quotes

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

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• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

  

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• We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

  

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• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.

  

  Gary Frank
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• 'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Deep
  • Thought

• I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • World
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• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

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• It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an economic standpoint - in Maryland. Maryland is not a cattle state. To raise beef cattle successfully, you've got to be able to raise cheap feed.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • You
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• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

  

  Kate Mosse
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• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  

  Ilka Chase
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• One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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• When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

  

  D. W. Griffith
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  • Money
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• I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

  

  Ted Demme
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• I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

  

  Christian Louboutin
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• Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
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• Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • People
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• As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

  

  Christopher Young
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• If just a few of you would step up and be like Jonathan ... as you step out in faith, you know what's going to happen? There'll be people like Saul who'll say, "God's doing something through that guy, God's doing something through that girl. I want to be a part of that.

  

  Francis Chan
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• I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

  

  Louis Theroux