Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Terry Eagleton

• Earth
• Imagination
• Lying
• Cynicism
• Naivety

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• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

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• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
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  • City
  • New York

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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  • Why
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• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
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  • Desire
  • Common

• I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

  

  Owain Yeoman
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• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
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  • Kids
  • Bible

• 'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

  

  Jim Inhofe

• I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Time
  • Different
  • Learning

• The joy I get from work is just huge.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
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• It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Great
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• Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

  

  Angus Deaton
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• I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

  

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• Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

  

  Marcus Luttrell

• Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," rather than thinking, "I'm part of this space over here, and in order for it to grow, you can't have it assimilated by this bigger bubble or corporate brand."

  

  M.I.A.
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• I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

  

  Leona Helmsley
  • Real
  • Estate
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• How my achievements mock me!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Achievement
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• I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.

  

  Johnny Flynn
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  • Music

• Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Earth
  • Imagination
  • Lying