Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Pat Cadigan
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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.
Irvin Kershner
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
Marshall McLuhan
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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.
Teju Cole
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When you see all the medals won by Team GB, you can just see how much it means to each and every athlete, so it just feel like it's a little bit of a missed opportunity - but I'm only 23. I have just got to get on now and keep going.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
Priyanka Chopra
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
Terry Eagleton
