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 -
'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
Sally Field
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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.
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 -
I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
Mandy Moore
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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.
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 -
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 -
Because these thingsWill change.We can see it now.These wallsThat they put up,To hold us backWill fall down.It's a revolution,It's how we'll become.Who we'reSupposed to be.We'll sing hallelujah;We'll sing hallelujah.Oh.
Taylor Swift -
It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.
Dawn Olivieri
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Rockwell -
I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
Gary Lineker -
I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.
Benjamin Clementine -
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
Daniel Espinosa -
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
Jon Scieszka -
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