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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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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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
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Her lips were like large crimson polyps.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.
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Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
