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Simon Hoggart Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 26, 1946

Topics

American Look Chicken Politicians

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

Book Think Evening Church Important

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Way Follow Expression Instincts

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

Science Humor Best Reading Reach

Your library is your paradise.

Desiderius Erasmus

Education Library Paradise Your

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.

Women Job Me Pressure Credit House

I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

Never Ordinary One Thing Just Wanted

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

Father Childhood Fishing Memory Go

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.

Principles Emotional Us Only Fact

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Beauty Effort Impress Without Us

I speak Hebrew excellently.

Arcadi Gaydamak

The rise of Twitter defined 2011. Once every 5-7 years, a company emerges that changes not just the technology industry, but the world... after what some viewed as a rocky start, in 2011 Twitter broke through into the elite group of companies that profoundly shape our world.

Technology World Start Rise Group

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

Judgment Always Anything Pass Should

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