Camille Paglia Quotes

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Camille Paglia

• Family
• American
• Dream
• Poverty
• American Dream

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Changes

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Different
  • Done
  • Never

• I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Party

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Air

• I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

  

  Mark Salling
  • Dream

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • American
  • Dream