Louis Theroux Quotes
L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
