Camille Paglia Quotes

Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Writing
  • Universe

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Health
  • Happiness

• Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Need
  • Potential
  • Cooperation

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Book
  • Piano

• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Think
  • Need

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Society

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

  

  Yul Vazquez
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  • Mind
  • Think

• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.

  

  Fred Armisen

• People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

  

  Andy Dick
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  

  Camille Paglia
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