Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.
Terry Eagleton
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
Alan Ball
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America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.
Eric Braeden
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To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.
Albert Gubay
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I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
Brad Gilbert
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I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.
Antonio Banderas
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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
James Gray
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.
Anne Robinson
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I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
Lauren Myracle
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I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
Robert James Ritchi
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
Jean de la Bruyere
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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach
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There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.
Els Borst
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Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
Antonio Porchia
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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
Harvey Keitel
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Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
Bobby Darin
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
Pablo Picasso
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.
Terry Eagleton
