Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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One more instance I will give of his interest and his knowledge. We were passing under a fir tree when we heard a small song in the tree above us. We stopped and I said that was the song of a golden-crested wren. He listened very attentively while the bird repeated its little song, as its habit is. Then he said, "I think that is exactly the same song as that of a bird that we have in America"; and that was the only English song that he recognized as being the same as any bird song in America. Some time afterwards I met a bird expert in the Natural History Museum in London and told him this incident, and he confirmed what Colonel Roosevelt had said, that the song of this bird would be about the only song that the two countries had in common. I think that a very remarkable instance of minute and accurate knowledge on the part of Colonel Roosevelt. It was the business of the bird expert in London to know about birds. Colonel Roosevelt's knowledge was a mere incident acquired, not as part of the work of his life, but entirely outside it.
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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
