Louis Theroux Quotes
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Being evil is easy.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.
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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
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I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
