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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

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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.

  

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• I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

  

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

  

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• I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  

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• For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

  

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• Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

  

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• Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

  

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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