Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.
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Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
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I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
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If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.
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Thelma '...We're too old to keep being foolish.'
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I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.
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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.
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I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
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Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
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It is easy to kill someone with a slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down.
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In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
