Disappearing controversial words and works doesn't make us smarter. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half… — Cynthia Nixon 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up… — Susan Wojcicki 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
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
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated… — Charles H. Percy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you look at the rights situation - what media companies pay - then you see that the rights prices continue to… — Martin Sorrell 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
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
To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
