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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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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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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Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
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Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry
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The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
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What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
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You are human and fallible.
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
