Camille Paglia Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?
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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
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Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes.
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Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.
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Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.
