Terry Eagleton Quotes

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Terry Eagleton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

Jock Sturges

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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Mel Brooks

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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Robert Smith

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Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.

Mauricio Macri

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We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.

Matt Mead

TechnologyBetterWantCleanLeave

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

Soccer Mommy

WomenMusicBetterWantListenBeen

I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I'm something I'm not. I'll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.

Tony Bellew

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In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'

Tom Reiss

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Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

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I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.

Mona Eltahawy

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I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

Luise Rainer

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord Byron

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