Camille Paglia Quotes
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're from, what kind of personality you've got...everyone loves music of some sort; that's what's so epic about it.
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I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
