I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial. — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made). — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“At the time, though, vaccination was controversial. Many were opposed.” — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial. — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
“The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the… — Alexandra Levit Copy Share Image
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Immigration is by far the most controversial yet least understood issue in America. Frankly, given the way we're talking about immigration, given… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts… — Nancy Giles Copy Share Image
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Media economics now are so dependent on people saying controversial things and an entire mini-news cycle springing up around this thing that… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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