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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. (Camille Paglia)
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. View quote
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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. View quote
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. View quote
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. View quote
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I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape. View quote
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The fact is, you get great art only from mutilated egos. Only mutilated egos are obsessive enough. View quote
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Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it. View quote
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In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent "rough trade” have always paid for this kind of sex. View quote
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The idea that feminism is the first group that has ever denounced rape is a gross libel to men. View quote
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They are not frightened by me, no matter how loud I am. But the men at the college were terrified because they are eunuchs, and I threatened every goddamned one of them. (Camille Paglia)
I am saying that many of the problems between the sexes are coming from something prior to socialization, a turbulence that has to do with every boy's origin in a woman's body, and the way he is overwhelmed by this huge, matriarchal shadow of a goddess figure from his childhood. View quote
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There is nothing in kids' education anymore that tells them to revere anything. View quote
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It was intended to please no one and to offend everyone. The entire process of the book was to discover the repressed elements of contemporary culture, whatever they are, and palpate them. View quote
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Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. View quote
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The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk. View quote
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I have been studying it [sexuality] since before it became fashionable. View quote
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Whatever their motives, the first feminist theorists acted as vandals and Bolsheviks. View quote
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The computer, with its multiplying forums for spontaneous free expression from e-mail to listservs and blogs, has increased facility and fluency of language but degraded sensitivity to the individual word and reduced respect for organized argument, the process of deductive reasoning. View quote
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It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong. View quote
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The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal. (Camille Paglia)
Women have the right to freely choose and to say yes or no. Everyone should be personally responsible for what happens in life. View quote
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My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. View quote
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. View quote
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Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls. View quote
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