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Terry Eagleton Quotes

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: February 22, 1943

Topics

Learning Business End Poor Cost

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Nice Anything Involved Because Very

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Sick Voice Smoking Short Career Cut

I work out six days a week. I do pilates, Bikram yoga and spinning. Every once in awhile, I'll throw weights in. I like to get some kind of cardio in every day, even if it's just hiking.

Sprague Grayden

Work Day Week Every Day Kind Out

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Music Language See I See Own Tail

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

Tom Weston-Jones

Dark Want Way Sides Realistic

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

You Band Playing Common Once Rigid

Ask an eight-year-old kid or see his face when he sees a car being blown up. They come to me, ask me what I am doing next. They loved 'Singham' because there were so many cars, and that's why there was no blood, because I knew they will come to watch my film.

Car I Am Me Face Loved Doing

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.

Great Myself Wait Game Chance You

I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

Judah Friedlander

I Am World Artist Greatest Am

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Myself Pizza Down Measurement Make

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

Live Past People Band Over Rising

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.

Blue Never Jeans Away Blue Jeans

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