Camille Paglia Quotes
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
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Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
