Camille Paglia Quotes
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
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The women and men who have suffered military sexual trauma deserve our respect, compassion and commitment to provide them with ready access to counseling and treatment. I am releasing the report, which I have obtained through other sources, to shine a light on a serious problem that the White House wants to hide in the shadows.
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The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.
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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.
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The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
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Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
