#ted

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#am #classes #collected #day #essays

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#bit #crazy #did #even #forty

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#because #being #being alone #called #close

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#audiences #between #closest #contemporary #educated

Wars have always started over religion. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#over #religion #started #wars

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#advocate #america #children #country #daughters

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#dropped #explore #fairly #first #form

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#deceptively #doubt #endlessly #ever #frustrates

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#could #i #maybe #pitch #record