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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We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
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America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.
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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.
