Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart

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.

Blue

Hero

Whales

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.

Air

Children

Parent

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

Sand

Texas

Water

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?’

Ipads

Past

Play

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.

Children

Thinking

Years

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.

Thinking

Views

Way

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.

News

Paris

Turkeys

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

Different

Jury

Way

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

Class

Daily Mail

Misery

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

Courses

Success

Training

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Animal

Believe

Blue

Children

Chinese

Cities

Class

Country

Courses

Daily Mail

Different

Dinner

Edward Scissorhands

Firsts

Funeral

Glasses

Gossip

Government

Hero

Home

House

Important

Interesting

Ipads

Jobs

Jury

Lines

Looks

Lucky

Misery

Museums

New York

News

Nhs

Parent

Paris

Party

Past

Play

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Reform

Sand

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Success

Successful

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Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

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