Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.
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Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.
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My No. 1 is Johnny Depp, ever since 'Cry Baby.' He had my heart.
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I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
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All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.
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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
