Camille Paglia Quotes
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
-
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
-
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
-
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
-
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
-
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
-
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
-
One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
-
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
-
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
-
I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.
-
So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.
-
I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
-
All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
-
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.
-
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
-
Tradition has made women cowardly.
-
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
-
It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
-
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
-
The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
-
Adversity is the first path to truth.
-
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
-
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
