Camille Paglia Quotes
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I received free health care.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.
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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
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I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.
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The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
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I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
