1.
There is no such thing as a former KGB man.
Vladimir Putin
There is no such thing as an ex-KGB agent.
2.
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
Vladimir Putin
3.
Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
Vladimir Putin
4.
I occasionally watch provocative videos.
Jay Park
6.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
7.
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Vladimir Putin
8.
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
David Rockefeller
9.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Vladimir Putin
10.
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
Matt Haig
11.
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
Kevin O'Leary
12.
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
13.
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
Kathryn Bigelow
14.
That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.
Bryan Stevenson
15.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
Don Rickles
16.
Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another.
Gordon S. Wood
17.
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
Sam Harris
18.
I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.
Madonna Ciccone
19.
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
Vladimir Putin
20.
There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
Andres Serrano
21.
There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
Roger Vadim
23.
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
Alan Coren
24.
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
Isaac Barrow
25.
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
David LaChapelle
26.
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.
David J. Skorton
29.
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
J. Hoberman
30.
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
Toni Morrison
31.
I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.
Seungri
32.
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.
Madonna Ciccone
33.
I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.
Polly Allen Mellen
34.
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
Deborah Harkness
35.
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
George Meyer
36.
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
37.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
Lady Gaga
38.
To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
John McTiernan
39.
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
Erin Morgenstern
40.
I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.
Judy Dater
41.
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.
Kenneth Goldsmith
42.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell
43.
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
Marc Maron
44.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45.
Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.
Rami Malek
46.
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 well.
Sigmar Gabriel
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Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
Janet Lembke