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.
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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.
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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.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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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.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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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.
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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)
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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
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I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.
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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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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.
