Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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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.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
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Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'
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Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
