Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
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Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
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I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
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Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.
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A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!
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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
