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" As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. "
Camille Paglia
Should
Composer
Eye
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" I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking. "
Camille Paglia
Future
America
Thinking
" If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. "
Camille Paglia
House
Angry
American
" Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. "
Camille Paglia
Music
Dance
Art
" Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. "
Camille Paglia
Television
Life
Madness
" Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. "
Camille Paglia
Most
Capitalism
World
" Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. "
Camille Paglia
Ballet
Talent
Help
" Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. "
Camille Paglia
Audience
Changes
Map
" I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. "
Camille Paglia
Greatness
History
Beauty
" Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. "
Camille Paglia
Younger
Beauty
Problem
" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "
Camille Paglia
Power
Legal
Law
" Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. "
Camille Paglia
May
Deep
Slow
" Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? "
Camille Paglia
She
Need
Music
" Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. "
Camille Paglia
Sexuality
Essence
Pursuit
" Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent. "
Camille Paglia
Room
Dead
Feminism
" The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me. "
Camille Paglia
People
Angry
Work
" I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. "
Camille Paglia
Political
America
Change
" Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. "
Camille Paglia
West
Nature
Moment
" It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. "
Camille Paglia
Funding
Arts
Government
" Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. "
Camille Paglia
Perpetual
Religion
Hallmark
" Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture. "
Camille Paglia
Culture
Information
Training
" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "
Camille Paglia
Boring
Head
Art
" Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. "
Camille Paglia
Geography
Work
Universe
" Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. "
Camille Paglia
Women
Earth
Know
" The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. "
Camille Paglia
Plastic
Issue
Plastic Surgery
" Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. "
Camille Paglia
Decade
Been
Over
" I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. "
Camille Paglia
Wonderful
Action
System
" I am a very reclusive, private person. "
Camille Paglia
I Am
Private
Private Person
" If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. "
Camille Paglia
Living
Hands
Grass
" Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. "
Camille Paglia
Against
Limit
Nature
" Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. "
Camille Paglia
World
Past
Over