Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.Terry Eagleton
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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.
Orhan Pamuk -
I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
Zendaya -
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia -
Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
Orhan Pamuk -
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
Valerie Plame -
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
Caleb Cushing
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
Larry Flynt -
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.
Vicente Fox -
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.
Hans Jonas -
That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
Pam Bondi -
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.
Octavio Paz -
To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
Kapil Sibal
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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.
Ed Pastor -
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.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
Harri Holkeri -
I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
Eartha Kitt -
I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
Paolo Sorrentino -
English is not my first language.
Camila Alves
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As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.
Lizzie Armitstead -
My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
Candice Swanepoel -
I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
Little Richard -
I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.
Laura Moser -
These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
Bono U2 -
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Terry Eagleton