Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
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I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.
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It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
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No one is looking at what President Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a bikini pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.
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For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.
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I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
