Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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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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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
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The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.
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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
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The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
