Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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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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No damn man kills me and lives.
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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 love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life’s gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.
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I'm always going to be cooking, doing restaurants, helping my kids in their careers, with their sports, with their school, but this opportunity is bigger picture. We can deploy quickly, because we don't have that red tape. We don't need to get requisition forms or this or that. We can just do it.
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
