Controversial Quotes · Page 5

I never thought of myself as a particularly controversial figure.

— Michael Ball

“At the time, though, vaccination was controversial. Many were opposed.”

— Jennifer Wright

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

— Elliott Abrams

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

— Patti Smith

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

— Robin Thicke

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

— Julian Assange

Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny…

— Ben Shapiro

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

— Richard M. Nixon

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a…

— Rebecca Pidgeon

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's,…

— Bill Gates

Abraham Lincoln was controversial. Mahatma Gandhi was controversial. Jesus was controversial. If you call Vernon Jones controversial, then that is a badge…

— Vernon Jones

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything…

— Chris Lilley

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.

— Gina Haspel

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The…

— Jane Smiley

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture…

— Mark Foster

Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s.…

— David Suzuki

I didn't say what I said to be controversial just because most people are picking the Patriots to win. I consider myself…

— Warren Sapp

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a…

— Eric Andre

I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question…

— Jason Rezaian

As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on…

— Jessie J

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people…

— Yoko Ono

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why…

— Roger Ailes

One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal…

— Dan Barker

I've always liked the old-school journalism approach. I don't have to take a side on any controversial issue. I get to present…

— Stephen M. Miller

I have to tell you, a few people had very controversial feelings about what I was doing with Gucci at the beginning,…

— Frida Giannini

Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead…

— Kevin Bales

This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum…

— George Greenstein

In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces…

— Kevin Warwick

A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in…

— Steven Tyler

My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

— Lady Gaga

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

— Monica

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

— Rosie Perez

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

— Maurice Sendak

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

— Martina Navratilova

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

— Liam Neeson

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

— Yony Leyser

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

— Slick Rick