Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
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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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
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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.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
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• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
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  • Sugar

• 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.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

  

  Dan Wakefield
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• For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.

  

  A. J. Cook
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• Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
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  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
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• Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Painting

• You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

  

  Dawn Steel
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• I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

  

  Jane Hamilton
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• Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

  

  Kevin Kelly
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  • Future
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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  

  Daniel Seligman
  • Political
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  • Feminism

• Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Thinking
  • Mind
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• Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

  

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