Simon 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.

Simon Hoggart

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LoveFaithPeopleShoppingUnique

Our politics is about people not flags.

Johann Lamont

PoliticsPeopleOurFlagsAbout

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

John Edward Christopher Hill

FreedomMenLatePrivilegeRealize

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

Amanda Peet

YouActorNarcissismOwnYour

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

Amitava Kumar

FamilyMotherEatingRestFishUp

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Roger Bannister

MedicineBehaviorImportantDifficult

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

Mat Kearney

LearningSongGuitarLovedPlaySit

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

Dinesh Paliwal

EnoughBoldAheadFlexibleChanges

What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chris Gardner

LifeHistoryKingClarityMoral

Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

Clint Smith

FamilyHomeDanceTelevisionHoliday

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

Brad Pitt

ViewMoreAlwaysOutGoingJust

The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.

William Godwin

SoulManLongSightBecomeMust

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

Philip Treacy

CultureSheDivaOutPointMust

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