I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
One can justify provocative moves if they serve an important strategic goal. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith Copy Share Image
I love Roger Stone. He's very provocative, and I like that about him. He's not afraid to take risk, and he's not… — Laura Loomer Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push… — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love… — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
I'm a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He's sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time.… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval -… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial,… — Connie May Fowler Copy Share Image
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“We are two girls, with endless thoughts of provocative romance.” — Candace Werts Nikki Hoy Copy Share Image