Controversial Quotes · Page 8

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

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

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

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

— Bjorn Borg

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

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 want to be remembered as a woman who represented God but was controversial, stood by what she believed and wouldn't allow…

— Meagan Good

'Top Boy,' for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are comics who choose to be controversial, and people have to make a judgment call. You either watch it or you…

— Lenny Henry

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you…

— Brian Froud

[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never…

— Van Jones

Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's…

— Bill Gates

I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but…

— Victor Salva

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

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

— Donna Brazile

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

— Jack Newfield

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

— Barbara Bush

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Pontus Hulten

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

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've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

— Avigdor Lieberman

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

— Shimon Peres

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its…

— John Ridley

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

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a…

— Laura Bates

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

— Carolyn Maloney

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

— Scott McNealy

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

— Michael Pitt