Simon Hoggart Quotes - Page 2

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• I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

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  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: a stalking horse from the same stable" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wall, Cities, Glasses

  "Simon Hoggart's week: hubris and the house of Miliband" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

  Simon Hoggart

  Class, Daily Mail, Misery

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

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  Successful, Looks, Dinner

  "Young, skinny and a little anxious: The other side of the adored Barack Obama" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2008.

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• Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

  Simon Hoggart

  Boys, Names, Seven

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

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  Airports, Hoarding, Watches

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the ugly face of Swiss watches" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

  Simon Hoggart

  America, World, Way

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• When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

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  Writing, Interesting, Gossip

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

  Simon Hoggart

  House, Lucky, Toffee

  "Lady Thatcher tribute: MPs serve up a gigantic sticky toffee pudding" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.

  Simon Hoggart

  Winning, Iran, Hostage Crisis

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Air, Parent

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

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  Home, Wine, Chinese

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

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  Men, Daylight, Peter

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

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  Retirement, Jobs, Mean

  "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

  Simon Hoggart

  Fire, Two, Sweaters

  "Simon Hoggart's week: TV guilt and swanupmanship at Vintners' dinner" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.

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  Wine, World, Proud

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• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

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  Optimistic, Mean, White

  "Ironing the Lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia". www.theguardian.com. February 09, 1980.

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• Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

  Simon Hoggart

  Texas, Water, Sand

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

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  Dream, Blood, Liberty

  Simon Hoggart (1990). “America: A User's Guide”, HarperCollins

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• Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

  Simon Hoggart

  Country, Long, Vancouver

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