A Quote by Charles Olson

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

Charles Olson

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Advocate Devil Devil's Advocate Hope Representing

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Charles Olson
American - Poet
December 27, 1910 - January 10, 1970

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

John J. McLaughlin

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

Frank Zappa

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Cecily Strong

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Seth MacFarlane

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

Geert Wilders

I will sit there on the air and look at every position and play devil's advocate.

Alex Jones

People represent their constituencies and have particular interests based on who they are and the experiences that have formed them. You don't have to be a child to be an advocate for children. You don't have to be a woman to be an advocate for women. You don't have to be Hispanic to be an advocate for Hispanics.

Margaret Hoover

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Bob Marley

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Ingrid Weir

I hope women feel confident with themselves and realize that we don't all have to look alike or be the same size to be beautiful. I hope they feel like representing what it means to be an individual and to remain comfortable in your own skin.

Janelle Monae

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Seth Godin

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Criss Jami

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

Doug Martsch

The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

Hugo Chavez

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.