Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.Terry Eagleton
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger -
I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
D'Arcy Carden -
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov -
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
Mal Peet
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
Sally Field -
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
Idina Menzel -
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock -
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
Damon Galgut -
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung -
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
Tanit Phoenix
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
Mandy Moore -
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
Paloma Elsesser -
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
Becky Lynch -
I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
Dakota Fanning -
I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.
Olivia Thirlby -
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
Safak Pavey
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh -
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
Kevin Maurice Johnson -
It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.
Jerome Powell -
2012 was a good year for the Mahindra Group, as we moved ahead by venturing into new geographies and businesses.
Anand Mahindra -
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
Terry Eagleton