A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.


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The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there&#...
LOUIS THEROUX
I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it'...
LOUIS THEROUX
If I had to write long-form stuff with descriptions of rooms, it would be so boring for me. I like w...
JUSTIN THEROUX
I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally...
LOUIS THEROUX
There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with a...
LOUIS THEROUX
Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all ...
LOUIS THEROUX
For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat...
LOUIS THEROUX
It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his...
JUSTIN THEROUX
I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot,...
LOUIS THEROUX
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
ALEXANDER THEROUX
On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairl...
LOUIS THEROUX
But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - b...
LOUIS THEROUX
She said. "I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days an...
LOUIS THEROUX
I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said.
Hm, I'd never ...
LOUIS THEROUX
Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer
LOUIS THEROUX
It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close ...
LOUIS THEROUX
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with...
LOUIS THEROUX
How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.
LOUIS THEROUX
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...
PHYLLIS THEROUX
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows,...
ALEXANDER THEROUX
Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that ...
PHYLLIS THEROUX
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC
Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD
As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL
If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL
Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL
People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL
I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL
You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL