Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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All estimates of savings are illusory and empty promises.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.
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Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
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The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
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Many children from troubled families have difficulty relaxing and having fun. Ability to be spontaneous and to play is a need and a characteristic of our Child Within.
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This hat its my treasure. But it does not belong to me.
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While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
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As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
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I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
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I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
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The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
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In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
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We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
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Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
