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

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" I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer. "

" When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. "

" Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. "

" 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. "

" No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. "

" I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. "

" 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. "

" It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts. "

" I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. "

" 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. "

" I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. "

" 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. "

" The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. "

" Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. "

" All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! "

" Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. "

" 'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. "

" I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. "

" 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. "

" In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. "

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" 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. "

" Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. "

" 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. "

" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "