A Quote by Rowan Atkinson
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
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