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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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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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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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
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Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
