Controversial Quotes · Page 3

I don't seek to be controversial, I just end up being controversial.

— Vanessa Mae

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

— Mindy Kaling

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

— Max Baucus

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

— Chris Evert

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

— John Heilemann

I don't like to get involved in controversial things.

— Jesus Navas

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

— Keith Green

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she…

— Shawn Amos

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how…

— Shahrukh Khan

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I…

— Rod Taylor

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

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

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

Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high…

— Milton Berle

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

— Audie Cornish

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

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

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

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives…

— David Chalmers

You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic…

— Jesse Bering

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

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

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

Sometimes I feel fashion is not open-minded enough. We need to push the old crowd to believe in what I believe, in…

— Olivier Rousteing

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

I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do…

— Clayton Hee

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and…

— Ossie Davis

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

“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

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

— Charles H. Percy

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

All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time

— George Seldes

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

— Adam Brody

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

— Kevin O'Leary

Disappearing controversial words and works doesn't make us smarter.

— Mary Katharine Ham

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

— Margaret Thatcher

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

— Laura Schlessinger

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

— Lauren Oliver

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

— Thomas Kinkade