Camille Paglia Quotes

I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.
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My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
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No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.
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Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.