Camille Paglia Quotes

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Camille Paglia

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • High
  • Never
  • Kid

• We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Done
  • Day

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Fate
  • Situation
  • Conscious

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• 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

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Always
  • Which

• I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • New York
  • Paris

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • World
  • Believe
  • Done

• In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Age
  • Culture

• When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Dream
  • Answer
  • Succeds

• To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Open

• History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Time
  • History
  • Generation

• I think it's one thing to declare your sexuality, if you care about what that is. It's another thing to start talking in public about what you do in private and who you do it with. It's not that they [my significant others] don't want to be identified as gay, but that they don't want to be identified as ... with me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • Gay
  • Talking

• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive