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.

Louis Theroux

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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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Enjoy

• I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Think
  • Better

• And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • First
  • Flight
  • Backup

• 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.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Moving

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Relationships
  • Personal

• Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Beautiful
  • Just
  • Scent

• 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.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Free
  • Always
  • Healthy

• My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Prayer

• 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.

  

  M. Ward
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Hand

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • You
  • Being
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Family
  • Love
  • Wind

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
  • Believe
  • Women

• I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

  

  Alan Ball
  • World

• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Training
  • Determine

• I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Kind
  • Heaven

• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • State
  • Maintain

• Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Help
  • Senior

• Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

  

  African Spir
  • Individuals
  • Possessions

• Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

  

  Louis Theroux