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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.
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I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
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During the early 1990s, Mexico's domestic political sensitivities meant that it rarely extradited people who had committed crimes in the U.S. After NAFTA, extradition numbers began to increase until they surpassed 100 a year in the late 2000s.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
