Camille Paglia Quotes
One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
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There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
