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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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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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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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
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The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to be used in the conditions in which wars are often fought. But it's only a tool, and while its ready availability in many unstable lands can be seen as kindling violence, this is not simply because of the weapon's qualities themselves. It is because of the quantities of the weapons that have been made.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.
