Louis Theroux Quotes
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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I really look up to Karlie Kloss.
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I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
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The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.
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I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.
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Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.
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Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.
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There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
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Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
