I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
GILES CORENI always say what I think to be amusing.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
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The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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We’ve got rid of subeditors because we don’t need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.
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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
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