Camille Paglia Quotes
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Justice is revenge.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
