#ric

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#bit #dose #everybody #except #full

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#ballet #boy #heaven #help #talent

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

#away #been #geniuses #historically #republicans

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich. ↗

— Bob Packwood

#problem #rich #tax #want #you

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #close #close proximity #except #exercises

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 #european #film #film criticism

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

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

#american #american policy #cannot #competing #different