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 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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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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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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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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I believe the climate is changing.
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I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
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I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
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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.
