Camille Paglia Quotes
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I am not honest.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"
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I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.
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When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
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The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
