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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A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.
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No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
