Camille Paglia Quotes

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Time
  • Real
  • Moments

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Long
  • Me
  • Camera

• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Day
  • Value
  • Economic

• The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Problem
  • Nation
  • Admit

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • People
  • Live
  • Kids

• People have created feuds between me and other artists.

  

  Estelle
  • Artists
  • Created

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • People
  • World
  • American

• The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Death

• The Devil is a woman.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Devil