Camille Paglia Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.
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Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.
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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
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I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
