Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.Terry Eagleton
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
Sam Neill -
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
Edith Widder -
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
Felicity Huffman -
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
Larry Kramer -
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
Gary Ross -
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. Pritzker -
The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
Lael Brainard -
My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
J. K. Simmons -
I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
Walter Kirn -
When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
Zendaya -
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
Tariq Ramadan -
I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
K. D. Lang -
Don't talk it, walk it.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
Donna Reed
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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan -
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
Fionnula Flanagan -
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Laurence Housman -
Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.
Albert Einstein -
I guess I really enjoy movies that have to do with human conditions and maybe based a little bit more in reality, so I think I would say romance.
Boti Bliss -
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
Terry Eagleton