Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.
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'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.
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What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
