Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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I think life is a chain of events.
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Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be doing this. I'd still be writing songs. I'd still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.
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Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
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I think it is important to keep redefining yourself as an actor with the roles you do and, at the same time, create diversity in your body of work.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
