Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.
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Catchers just aren't glamorous.
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The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
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'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
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The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.
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You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
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I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.
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There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
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It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.
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My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
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Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
