Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
