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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love so many styles of music.
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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.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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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.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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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.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
