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.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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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.
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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.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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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.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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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.
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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.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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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.
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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.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.
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Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.
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When it comes to certain portions of our history, we've just forgotten it all.
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If we don't have Willie it's going to hurt us. But we have so many guys ready to step up.
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When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.
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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.
