Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
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When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
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I'm not saying to the kids yo drop out of school, education is the most important thing first and foremost. You know, my circumstances were a little different. I needed to work to help out so I couldn't be in school. Not only that, it was getting into trouble and all that s**t. I was getting into trouble more in school than I was out of school, so I had to just go ahead and make that adjustment, so I mean realistically I always tell everybody, in my case I don't got a high school diploma, but I have two Grammys so it kinda worked out best for me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
