Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
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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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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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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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Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.
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I really, truly believe beauty is beyond size.
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As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
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I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.
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I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.
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When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
