Controversial Quotes

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

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

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

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

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

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

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

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

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

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

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

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.

I am really the most controversial artist in the world.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.