Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
Eddie Redmayne
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
Larry Hogan
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Nancy Gibbs
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
Malcolm Gladwell
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
Sam Riley
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
Oswald Spengler
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
Benito Mussolini
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
Charlie Sheen
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I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
Zainab Salbi
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Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
Phyllis George
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Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
Terry Eagleton