Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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Fate is written in the face.
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At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
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Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while-but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!
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Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
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Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?
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Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, 'When all the Temple is prepared within, Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?'
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Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
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In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.
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I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
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I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
