Top 558 Controversial Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I never have any idea how my opinions will be received, and more often than not I'm surprised when anything I say is controversial.
If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
People have always wondered if I'm trying to push the envelope when it comes to my cinema - they keep questioning the visual graphics and the controversial content.
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.
I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.
Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.
When Lady Gaga wears a meat dress, it's meant to be controversial, but then it turns into money, and it's all fine.
The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.
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.
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
Parenting is a sensitive, controversial subject, so I say to all the mommas and the daddies of the world God bless and good luck!
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.
I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.
Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.
Bible Code is a subject that is very controversial - most people in the world would not even know what we are talking about.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.
'Fifty Shades' opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that's controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly.
I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.
I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
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.
I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.
When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this relate to them?' I'd be paralyzed.
And that's one of the joys of the MCU universe... it has so many different paths and lanes and stories, and they don't shy away from neither the controversial nor the emotional.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.
My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.
I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.
I lost in the amateurs, losing a controversial fight that stopped me going to an Olympic Games - and it's not a nice feeling.
If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy.
