Camille Paglia Quotes
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
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'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.
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I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
