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" Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. "
Camille Paglia
Pride
Real
Universe
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" American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. "
Camille Paglia
Power
History
American
" Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. "
Camille Paglia
Audience
Special
Space
" 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
" Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. "
Camille Paglia
Ballet
Talent
Help
" The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. "
Camille Paglia
Done
Damage
Years
" Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. "
Camille Paglia
More
Us
Roots
" A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. "
Camille Paglia
Culture
Life
Knowledge
" I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. "
Camille Paglia
Believe
Think
View
" Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. "
Camille Paglia
Sovereignty
Always
Dignity
" Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. "
Camille Paglia
Expect
Right
Attack
" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "
Camille Paglia
Over
Still
1960s
" I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. "
Camille Paglia
Style
Toughness
Rice
" I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters. "
Camille Paglia
Believe
I Believe
World
" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "
Camille Paglia
Me
Like
Get
" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "
Camille Paglia
Guess
Warrior
Just
" 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
" Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. "
Camille Paglia
Dog
Your
Vacation
" 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
" If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early. "
Camille Paglia
Want
Young
Women
" The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. "
Camille Paglia
Audience
Value
Meaning
" 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
" 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
" It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. "
Camille Paglia
Capitalism
Hero
Soup
" I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. "
Camille Paglia
Principles
I Am
Who
" No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. "
Camille Paglia
Avant-Garde
Artist
Should
" If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. "
Camille Paglia
Living
Hands
Grass
" 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
" Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. "
Camille Paglia
Money
Education
New
" I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher. "
Camille Paglia
Business
Art
Nature
" You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. "
Camille Paglia
Accept
You
Sex