"The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself."

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Source : "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

Simon Hoggart

#Wine Quotes #Home Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
“There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.”

Source : Ben Horowitz (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins
“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.”
“I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.”
“I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.”
“It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.”
“I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.”
“Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.136, Penguin

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