Camille Paglia Quotes

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

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• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Me
  • Grew

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Child
  • Just
  • Rapper

• Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Job
  • Going
  • Season

• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • School
  • Risk

• It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Energy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Die

• I relate to women and children in women's shelters on a personal level because I've been there myself.

  

  Nia Sanchez
  • Children
  • Relate
  • Shelters

• If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• [Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • War
  • Said
  • Wanted

• Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Path
  • Trouble
  • Losing

• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Things
  • Said
  • Will