Camille Paglia Quotes
Sexual Personae seeks to demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture - something that has inspired little belief since the period before World War I.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.
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I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.
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I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.
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Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.
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Sexual Personae seeks to demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture - something that has inspired little belief since the period before World War I.
