Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

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• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

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• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

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• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

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• I'm not a babysitter.

  

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• I was a Girl Scout!

  

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• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

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• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

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• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

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• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

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• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

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• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

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• It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.

  

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• When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

  

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• You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

  

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• People with ADD often have a special “feel” for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.

  

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• I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

  

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• In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.

  

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• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

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• Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.

  

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• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Important
  • Revolution
  • Prejudice