Simon Hoggart Quotes

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

  Simon Hoggart

  Suicide, Atheist, War

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

  Simon Hoggart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

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  Party, Funeral, Dinner

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• A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

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  Swimming, Thinking, Law

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, Paris, News

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

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  Believe, Home, Important

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• The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

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  Nannies, Shapes

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• Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

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  New York, Party, Tired

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

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Holiday, Years

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

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• I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

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  Different, Way, Jury

  "Simon Hoggart's week: juries are smarter than lawyers suspect" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2013.

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• While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

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  Foxes, Michael J Fox, Humour

  "This is a job for super-wonk" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.

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  Thinking, Views, Way

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

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  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "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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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

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  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

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  Powerful, Sight, People

  "Why the American right make me sick" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

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  Lines, Poverty, Firsts

  "Milburn inflamed by compassion gone mad" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2002.

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• I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

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  Past, Play, Ipads

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the new Christmas traditions" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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

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  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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• 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.

  Simon Hoggart

  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.

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

  Simon Hoggart

  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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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