Camille Paglia Quotes

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Camille Paglia

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• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Believe
  • Live
  • True

• All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Government
  • Army
  • Taxes

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • History
  • True

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Government
  • Look
  • Forward

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Job
  • Government

• I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Arts
  • Degree
  • Culinary

• This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • True
  • Give

• I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Creative

• If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

  

  A. N. Wilson

• I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Children

• Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Children
  • True
  • Stress

• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Done
  • Education
  • Learning

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts