#rio

I guess I'm just a natural warrior. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#i #just #natural #warrior

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#angelina jolie #aside #celebrities #complex #days

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#conflict #glorious #harder #more #triumph

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#even #i #most #remark #serious

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.' ↗

— Leon Panetta

#became #bin #cia #director #go

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#comes #concern #deteriorated #ease #fail

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#comes #concern #deteriorated #ease #fail

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion! ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#comes #concern #deteriorated #ease #fail