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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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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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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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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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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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to... be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything's going to be okay.
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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.
