Provocative Quotes

159 Provocative quotes by 135 unique authors

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what… — Cee Lo Green
I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those… — Gabriel Iglesias
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be… — Helen Suzman
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking… — Aaron Scharf
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no… — Alain de Botton
A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level. — Eleanor Brown
Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage him in talks, ask him what he… — Vladimir Putin
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world… — Vladimir Putin
Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the… — Vladimir Putin
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. — Vladimir Putin
If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who… — Vladimir Putin
I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool. — Vladimir Putin
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns,… — Fred Barnes
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content… — Caridad Svich
Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow… — Sebastian Junger
Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a… — Maude Barlow
I naturally want to be provocative. — Iggy Azalea
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 buttons. — Madonna Ciccone
I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard… — Allison Williams
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the… — Malcolm Mclaren
White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a… — Tim DeKay
I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative. — Frida Giannini
I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as… — Sigmar Gabriel
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five… — William Zinsser

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