Camille Paglia Quotes
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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Nature doesn't make long speeches.
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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
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The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
