Terry Eagleton Quotes

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

Terry Eagleton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.

Jim Fowler

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Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.

Amy Klobuchar

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Whenever you get traded out and you are playing for a winning team, it's always good.

Steve Clevenger

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You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martin

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In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

Tony Lema

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I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

Ross Kemp

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I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

Mary J. Blige

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The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Lucy Stone

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I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Colin Quinn

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Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

Bobby Vinton

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It's been a long struggle. But we've made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren't allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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