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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

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FORREST CURRAN I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
SAM RILEY Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.
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SEAN ASTIN People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and t...
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CLIFF BREWIS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE We live in a period where these symbols are taking on very strong connotations and very divisive one...
ANTONELLA NOTARI It's painful. It really makes being a psychic seem boring.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweethear...
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LEVI STRAUSS We seem to have different standards when we deal with these issues from different communities.
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CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to des...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can wo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA When anything goes, it's women who lose.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking ru...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminis...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has bo...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex...
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