Camille Paglia Quotes
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
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All things, however, are not equal. Longevity is not a trait that exists in isolation; it evolves as part of a complex life history, with a wide range of underpinning physiological mechanisms involving, among other things, chronic disease processes.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
