Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Terry Eagleton
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
Sam Underwood
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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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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones
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This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
Lynn Coady
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I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Lena Horne
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
Willem de Kooning
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Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
Barack Obama
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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Terry Eagleton
