Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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History develops, art stands still.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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Within a mere five months however, the mindless violence of 2002 had dealt us another unexpected blow. Innocents were killed. Families rendered helpless. Property built through years of toil destroyed. Still struggling to get back on its feet from the natural devastation, this was a crippling blow to an already shattered and hurting Gujarat.
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
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If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
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Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
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The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principple of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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I'm not optimistic.
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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
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We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
