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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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 snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.
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Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
