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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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
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Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.
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I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
