Camille Paglia Quotes
When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
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For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
