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" Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. "

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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. "

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" I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. "

" I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. "

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" You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. "