Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
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I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
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Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.
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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
