#con

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#complacent #conditions #elite #glories #greedy

I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#back #cause #conservative #considered #contests

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#contemporary #dictate #ear #eye #madonna

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. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#constantly #epochs #fate #geography #godless

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #behavior #clan #contributed #godfather

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

— Camille Paglia

#balancing #choices #contemporary #facing #greater

The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#guinea #guinea pigs #healthcare #keep #own

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#businessman #economics #electorate #experienced #fortunes