Camille Paglia Quotes
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I respect the Premier League.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.
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In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
