Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
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A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
