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Controversial Quotes

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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
Shimon Peres

It's preferable to be provocative for the correct causes, than to be admired for the wrong justifications.
Authors on Controversial Quotes: Lawrence O'Donnell Noam Chomsky Michael Moore Gabriel Iglesias Yony Leyser Michio Kaku Eva Le Gallienne Greg Giraldo Spiro T. Agnew Bobby Jindal Martha Minow Marco Brambilla Shahrukh Khan Charles Barkley John F. Kennedy Harold Jeffreys Olivier Rousteing Terry Mosher Mindy Kaling Edward Abbey Gustave Courbet Steven Berkoff Bo Burnham Marvin Harris Shakira Chris Evert John Heilemann Gary Myers Oscar Levant Thomas Kinkade Howard Dean Adam Driver Steven Morrissey
2.
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
Marvin Harris

3.
I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.
Keith Green

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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Julian Assange

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I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.
Dorothy Draper

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Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne

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It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
Noam Chomsky

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I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Steven Morrissey

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If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.
Scott McNealy

10.
I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Oscar Levant

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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

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Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.
Spiro T. Agnew

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I am really the most controversial artist in the world.
Thomas Kinkade

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I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
Kevin O'Leary

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A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.
Greg Giraldo

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When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
Gustave Courbet

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I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
Shakira

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Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
Michio Kaku

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There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Cullen Hightower

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I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Christopher Darden

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It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.
Gary Myers

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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Flannery O'Connor

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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
Don Rickles

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Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
Seth Lloyd

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It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.
Max Baucus

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I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.
Elvis Presley

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If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
Simon Cowell

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But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
Liam Neeson

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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
Charles Barkley

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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
Margaret Thatcher

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I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.
Mindy Kaling

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We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.
Shahrukh Khan

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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.
Bo Burnham

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An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?
Steven Berkoff

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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
Sherman Alexie

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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
John F. Kennedy

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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush

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I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.
Donna Brazile

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The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
Wes Smith

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There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'
Harold Jeffreys

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Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver

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If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
Criss Jami

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You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.
Tim Wu

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Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.
Jack Newfield

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I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!
Angela Alioto

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Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.
Nell Irvin Painter

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To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.
John Heilemann

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I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.
Irvine Welsh

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About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.
Noam Chomsky

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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 now.
M.I.A.