Camille Paglia Quotes

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • America
  • Small
  • Negative

• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Children

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Think

• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Good
  • Art
  • Power

• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Grow

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Home

• I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Myself
  • Things
  • Forgiving

• When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • World
  • Parents

• My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

  

  Edward Brooke
  • People
  • America
  • Attention

• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  

  Camille Paglia
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