Controversial Quotes · Page 7

To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices.

— Michael Pitt

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

— Anonymous

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film,…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people…

— Evan Rachel Wood

I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist. I'm not trying to bash anybody, and I'm not trying to be…

— Leah Remini

Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.

— Maria Konnikova

What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.

— Christopher Ruddy

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

— Bjorn Borg

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically…

— George Bernard Shaw

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by…

— Andreas Feininger

The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall…

— John Goodlad

The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the…

— Noam Chomsky

People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of…

— William J. Brennan

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble…

— Dolly Parton

It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are…

— Martin Rees

“Hip-hop has always been controversial, and for good reason. When you watch a children's show and they've got a muppet rapping about…

— Jay-Z

Anyone interested in the past, present, or future of banking and financial crises should read The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati and Hellwig…

— Michael J. Boskin

In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the…

— Rick Santorum

If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to…

— Martin Sorrell

... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated…

— Charles H. Percy

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to…

— Dave Hickey

When I first became "controversial" and the fanbase became divided it was backwards! Because normally in our industry, when you hear a…

— John Cena

I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and…

— Oren Moverman

It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

— Troy Aikman

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as…

— Dave Sim

I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial…

— M.I.A

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want…

— Hillary Clinton

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be…

— Olivier Rousteing

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And…

— Bill Gates

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

— Akon

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the…

— Jack Newfield

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

— Pontus Hulten

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot…

— Barbara Bush

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave…

— Donna Brazile

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

— Donald Trump

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

— Joanne Froggatt

When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this…

— John Podhoretz