Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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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 committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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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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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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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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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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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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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
