Camille Paglia Quotes
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I’m sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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I don't run behind authority.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.
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Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.
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I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.
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I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I’m sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
