Camille Paglia Quotes
American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
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I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
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You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
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American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
