Camille Paglia Quotes
Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
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But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
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The president's global warming proposal appears to be another faith-based initiative. We should have faith that major corporations will line up to volunteer cuts in their carbon pollution. That approach has failed for a decade since the president's father set up the first voluntary program.
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I only want to be myself.
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Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
