Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
