Controversial famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
-- Adam Driver -
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
-- Barack Obama -
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
-- Barbara Bush -
It's not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.
-- Chris Evert -
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
-- Christopher Darden -
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
-- Criss Jami -
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
-- Cullen Hightower -
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
-- Dean Acheson -
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
-- Don Rickles -
I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.
-- Dorothy Draper -
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
-- Eva Le Gallienne -
I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
-- Gabriel Iglesias -
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
-- Goldie Hawn -
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
-- Gustave Courbet -
There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'
-- Harold Jeffreys -
I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
-- Howard Dean -
Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.
-- Jack Newfield -
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
-- Julian Assange -
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.
-- Keith Green -
I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
-- KRS-One -
It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.
-- Max Baucus -
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
-- Michio Kaku -
I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.
-- Mindy Kaling -
I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
-- Oscar Levant -
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
-- Seth Lloyd -
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
-- Shakira -
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
-- Simon Cowell -
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.
-- Spiro T. Agnew -
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?
-- Steven Berkoff -
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
-- Steven Morrissey -
I am really the most controversial artist in the world.
-- Thomas Kinkade -
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
-- Wes Smith -
I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!
-- Angela Alioto -
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.
-- Gary Myers -
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Michael Flynn is a very controversial figure for a variety of reasons.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.
-- Marco Brambilla -
I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.
-- Marshall Curry -
Let's put it in perspective at the United States Supreme Court, which hears maybe 60 cases a year, most of the cases are resolved without much dispute. The 10 or 15 that are controversial we all know about, and we hear about. The federal courts hear just a tiny sliver of the cases that go to court in this country. Most of the cases are in the state courts. And most legal issues never go to court. So, the legal system is actually not in jeopardy. At the same time, access to law is in jeopardy.
-- Martha Minow -
Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.
-- Maya Goded -
Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.
-- Nell Irvin Painter -
When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.
-- Olivier Rousteing -
I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).
-- Yony Leyser -
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.
-- Terry Mosher -
To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.
-- John Heilemann
