Camille Paglia Quotes
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
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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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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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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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Stay focused on the mission.
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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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The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?
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The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
