Camille Paglia Quotes
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.Camille Paglia
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
Cameron Crowe -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Daniel Boulud -
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
Omar Dorsey -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
Dan Gilbert -
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine -
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
R. J. Cutler -
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
Pat Conroy -
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid -
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
Walter Cronkite
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut -
The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
Vic Snyder -
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf -
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown -
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson
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My parents believed in the power of education.
Priscilla Chan -
I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.
Dorothy Hamill -
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow -
You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
Uzo Aduba -
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
Camille Paglia