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Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
American Author
Born: Apr 2, 1947
Am Art Because History Men Women
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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. Camille Paglia
Art Conservative Job Worried Scam Rip-Off About Pushed Hosts Longtime Talk Talk Radio Opinion Very Snow American Artist Fan Low Radio Portrayed Elites
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. Camille Paglia
Myself Me Father Be Prepared Put Like Boy Fists Up Times Child Taught Prepared Defend
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. Camille Paglia
Service Family Army Strong National Own Military Believe Guard Strong Supporter My Own Supporter New Massachusetts Because Am National Guard York Just New York Wars Navy
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. Camille Paglia
War History People World Fate Will Power Nation Every State Flux Visibility Seems Wed Policy Always Perpetual Fix American Different Cannot Turmoil American Policy Shows Why Competing Every Nation
We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. Camille Paglia
Psychic Few Live Stars Complex Angelina Jolie Seem Days Period Celebrities Aside Declining Lives
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. Camille Paglia
Style Immigrants Both Maintain Protestant Pragmatic Tradition Encounter Intellectual Began Scottish Canada North North American American Romanticism Plain English Assertive British
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. Camille Paglia
Art Will Value Beauty Pleasure Vandalism Restoration Emotion Academic Terror Audience Decade After Meaning Reign
Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. Camille Paglia
Talent Boy Ballet Heaven Help
You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. Camille Paglia
You Sex Danger Fact Part Accept
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. Camille Paglia
Life Reality Madness Books Television TV Than Closer Human Anything Human Life Actually
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. Camille Paglia
Wise Old Men Feminism White Herself Latina Embarrassment Bad About Days Vulgar Lecture Old Days
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. Camille Paglia
Will Prestige Take Repair George Years George W George W. Bush Done Bush Damage
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
Try Own Believe Think Everybody Least However His Intellectuals Role Role Models Models Should Body View Her Right Palette
I guess I'm just a natural warrior. Camille Paglia
Natural Warrior Guess Just
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. Camille Paglia
Culture Language Slow Fighting Humanities Think Only Studies Well Going Then Evangelist Popular Popular Culture Media Professor
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. Camille Paglia
Words Word Down Poetry Individual Writer Prose Like Schools Tracking Anymore Scrutiny Roots Skills Certainly Derived Things
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. Camille Paglia
Criticism Despise Phony Over Academic Years Rhetoric Which European Film Professors Film Criticism
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. Camille Paglia
Art Fashion Seriously Busy Too Say Visible Would Madonna Adoption Gym Horseback Remains Merchandising Primary Study Performer Most Self-Development She Well Principle Motivating Artistic Anyone Planet Riding Her
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. Camille Paglia
Great Nature Spiritual Atheist Recognize Only Although Catholicism Roman Which Grandeur Richness Who Believes Raised
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. Camille Paglia
Religion Adolescent Hallmark Perpetual
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. Camille Paglia
War History Over Still Legacy
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. Camille Paglia
Change Respect Political Analyst Astute Spirit David He True Most Courageous Audacious Passionately America Committed Irreverent Social Social Change Engaged Original
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. Camille Paglia
Woman Women Problem Beauty Ambition Reconciling No Problem Younger Professional
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 News Ugly Design Booming Though Web Major Most Sites Pits Video Clutter Games Even Creatively
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. Camille Paglia
Me Entertainment Pride Passion Fans Universe Entire Like Devoted Housewives Real Just Bravo Series
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family. Camille Paglia
Family Father College First Immigrant Factory He Go Italian Shoe Grandfather Worked
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