Louis Theroux Quotes
I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
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I did some work on Beyonce and Nick Minaj's 'Feeling Myself.'
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It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people who've been thrown out of work can be re-employed AND people who are new to the workforce can be employed. And that is going to be very difficult.
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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
