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" I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn! "
Camille Paglia
Reality
Never
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" 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. "
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Power
Legal
Law
" The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. "
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Plastic
Issue
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" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "
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" The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. "
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" Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. "
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" 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. "
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Culture
Information
Training
" Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. "
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Younger
Beauty
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" What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. "
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Generation
American
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" As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. "
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Politicians
I Am
Late
" Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. "
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Late
Past
Women
" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "
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Guess
Warrior
Just
" Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. "
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Sexuality
Essence
Pursuit
" It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. "
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Dress
History
Freedom
" 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. "
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More
Us
Roots
" 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
" Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. "
Camille Paglia
Practice
I Am
Career
" A woman simply is, but a man must become. "
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Man
Must
Simply
" I am a very reclusive, private person. "
Camille Paglia
I Am
Private
Private Person
" I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. "
Camille Paglia
Brick
Within
Two
" 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
" Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits. "
Camille Paglia
Video Games
Ugly
News
" Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. "
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Television
Life
Madness
" 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. "
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Energy
Book
History
" Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. "
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Ballet
Talent
Help
" 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. "
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Music
Dance
Art
" 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. "
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Pride
Real
Universe
" I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian. "
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Consider
Conservative
Myself
" I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. "
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Want
Women
Start
" Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. "
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Education
Guys
Energy
" The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. "
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Enemies
Remembered
Dead