Camille Paglia Quotes
I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
-
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
-
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
-
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
-
There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
-
Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
-
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
-
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
-
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-
If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
-
For me, family has always come first.
-
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
-
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
-
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-
When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
-
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
-
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
-
As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
-
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
-
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
-
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
-
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
-
So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
-
I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
