Camille Paglia Quotes

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Camille Paglia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1947

Topics

CultureThinkSlowLanguageFighting

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand

TruthGreatFightTruth IsMinds

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden

DreamsYour DreamsYouWillUpGive

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Steve Erickson

TimeActAugustMovieFinishedToo

Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it's all about the sass.

Rob Liefeld

CharacterYouScreenGoingActress

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

Robert Webb

WorkFunnySayDramaticTakeWho

My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With Her.' I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads, 'I'm with you - the American people.'

Donald Trump

LoyaltyPeopleAmericanYouChoose

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Brian May

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This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

Chrystia Freeland

DemocracyWorldPoliticalChoice

My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club - world music, multiculturalism - not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.

Boy George

MusicGreatCultureTogetherPeople

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

Brian Tyree Henry

MeThinkYouPersonSinglePaper

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

William James

NaturePowerColdAlcoholFacts

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Sydney Smith

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