Camille Paglia Quotes
Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
