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

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" 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. "

" Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. "

" I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. "

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

" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "

" Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. "

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

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" I am a very reclusive, private person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. "

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

" Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. "

" 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. "

" If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. "

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

" 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. "

" As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. "

" A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. "

" 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. "

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

" My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. "