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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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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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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A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
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I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
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It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
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A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
