Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
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I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
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Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
