Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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You can't like everything! You hate some stuff! Say what you hate! Like, I hate Pitbull, and I don't care!
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
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It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.
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Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
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You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
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Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
