Camille Paglia Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
