Controversial Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Controversial Intellectual Interest
“The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it’s usually not good for your career in the long term.” — Alexandra Levit Copy Share Image
When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared. — Olivier Rousteing Copy Share Image
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive. — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions. — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I never have any idea how my opinions will be received, and more often than not I'm surprised when anything I say is controversial. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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 is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent. — Wes Smith Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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