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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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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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.
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The basic problem is for a congressman or a president to get elected, they need obscene amounts of money. And the only place you can get obscene amounts of money is from Wall Street and the big corporations who benefit from shipping our jobs and our factories overseas - that's the fundamental political problem.
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Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
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You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating?
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
