Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can… — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Western teaching institutions that refuse to acknowledge today's taboos are by definition subversive. Tell the new zealots of Washington that in the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I went from doing something that was very original, sort of subversive, and specific in its voice - The Grinder - and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny… — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
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