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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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Years ago, I couldn't get arrested in commercials because of my look: 'Is he Jewish, Hispanic, or African-American?' I ended up doing voiceover work, which has been great. Honestly, I can't complain.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
