Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. — Keith David Copy Share Image
I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk. — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
“I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.” — Kayla Curry Copy Share Image
Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
I cannot appreciate anybody who creates controversy over things which do not exist. I can tolerate controversy over things which truly happened,… — Gianluigi Buffon Copy Share Image
Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“We need some controversy every now and then. Without it, we would never know where we stand as individuals: with the crowd… — K. Weikel Copy Share Image
People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ. — John Berridge Copy Share Image
Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was scheduled to fight in November of 2008 in a kickboxing show called XMA. There were some controversies that happened between… — Shawn Tompkins Copy Share Image
In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Soon after this meeting with the Morelands came the period of crisis leading up to the Abdication, one of those public events… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset. — Roy Cohn Copy Share Image
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears! — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
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