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" Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. "

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" Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. "

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

" The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. "

" If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. "

" Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began. "

" Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. "

" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

" I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. "

" Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. "

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

" The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. "

" The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial. "

" Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? "

" As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. "

" The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. "

Plastic Surgery

" If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. "

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

" 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. "

" My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. "