Camille Paglia Quotes
My own proposals for reform in academia include the abolition of all literary conferences and the replacement of women's studies with sex studies, based on the rigorous study of world history, anthropology, psychology, and science. Today, in politically correct America, questions of quality, learning, and intellectual distinction are out of style.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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Actors are a race.
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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My own proposals for reform in academia include the abolition of all literary conferences and the replacement of women's studies with sex studies, based on the rigorous study of world history, anthropology, psychology, and science. Today, in politically correct America, questions of quality, learning, and intellectual distinction are out of style.
