Camille Paglia Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I know about raising money.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.
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I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.
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I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
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I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
