Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Terry Eagleton
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
Samantha Power
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
Nat Turner
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
Randall Munroe
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
Patricia Cornwell
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
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You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Nancy Greene
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
Patrice Leconte
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Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
Pankaj Mishra
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
Jack Vance
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Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
Eminem
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The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
David Grinspoon
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I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.
Edward T. Hall
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
Sammy Sosa
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While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."
Moran Atias
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And while we recognize that our influence will at times be limited, although we will be wary of efforts to impose democracy through military force, and although we will at times be accused of hypocrisy and inconsistency, we will be engaged in the region for the long haul. For the hard work of forging freedom and democracy is the task of a generation.
Barack Obama
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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Terry Eagleton
