Top 24 Being Controversial Quotes
#1. I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.
Elvis Presley
#2. 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.
Bo Burnham
#3. The reality is that being controversial generates attention for a little while, but it's usually not good for your career in the long term.
Alexandra Levit
#4. Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.
Henry Wriston
#5. It didn't take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman ...
Robyn Carr
#7. Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
Randy West
#8. The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
Salman Rushdie
#9. Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
David Suzuki
#10. But I know rodents. Also, I believe I was a rodent, but that was only for a little while - I don't remember it clearly and I don't want to discuss it. I think I can handle a possum
Cassandra Clare
#11. Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.
Anthony Bourdain
#12. I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
Tony Judt
#13. Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.
James Fenimore Cooper
#14. The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours
Eric Berne
#15. When I talk to students or young writers about the importance of being unafraid to take controversial positions, I'm struck by the degree to which they can't entertain a thought, much less commit one to paper, without imagining the cacophony of snark they'll get in response.
Meghan Daum
#16. I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.
Romany Malco
#17. Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.
Patricia Churchland
#18. Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
Clive Thompson
#20. I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.
Robin Thicke
#21. I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?
Suzanne Collins
#22. Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
Charles Kennedy
#23. I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.
Frank Lampard
#24. If you think you can lead your flock of sheeple and peeps to some glorified noodle fest on the mall, you got another thing coming, mister.
Stephen Colbert
