Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes

I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

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• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

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• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

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• There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

  

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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

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• I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  

  Harold Prince
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• I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
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• I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Love
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• I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Technology
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• All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Parents
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• My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Up
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• My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
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• When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

  

  Dries van Noten
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• So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Country
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• In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Reality
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• I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within

  

  Rumi
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• I drink a lot of water and I try to watch what I eat. The thing about me is I like healthy stuff, I like fruits and veggies, so it's all about moderation.

  

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• 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Home
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• Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

  

  Anjem Choudary
  • Freedom
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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  

  Simon Hoggart
  • Lives
  • Opinions
  • Grandparents