Camille Paglia Quotes
The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.

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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.