I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy. — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept. — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm a very controversial figure in the Christian world. I don't believe if you're gay or you have a drink or you… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do… — Clayton Hee Copy Share Image
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress… — Carl Pope Copy Share Image
Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The media and Bollywood can't live without each other, and, of course, with the rising number of channels and publications, they have… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive. — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.' — Abu Dawood Copy Share Image
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People have always wondered if I'm trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema - they keep questioning the… — Ekta Kapoor Copy Share Image
The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters,… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
We knew that 'Naked Attraction' was going to be controversial but as long as youre being controversial for the right reasons, I… — Anna Richardson Copy Share Image
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