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 think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
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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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Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.
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If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.
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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.
