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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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
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If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
