Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
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I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.
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I'm never really happy with anything I do.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
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I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.
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I just want to tell black stories.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
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I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.
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People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
