A Quote by Terry Eagleton

Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do. — © Terry Eagleton
Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do.

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Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
People use the word success often, I don't use that word.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.
You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these provocative words that insult them. "Islamic terrorism" is a phrase not permitted to be used by the US government.
Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.
I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda - not only in word but in deed.
I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwiches? All-encompassingly.
PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
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