Controversial Idea Quotes

#1. The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.

Annie Jacobsen

#2. I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

Ron Paul

#3. If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Tama J. Kieves

#4. Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

Abhishek Ratna

#5. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

Michael J. Sandel

#6. I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

David Suchet

#7. I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

Maisie Williams

#8. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. If we understand "rights" to be legal protection against harm, then many animals already do have rights, and the idea of animal rights is not terribly controversial.

Cass R. Sunstein

#10. There's something
so great about this," she whispers.
About what?" I whisper back.
About this," she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It's just you and me - against the world.

Sonya Sones

#11. Every American is free to do anything at all here in this supposedly great free country. Why don't they use their freedom and liberty to pursue happiness?

Matthew Quick

#12. No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world's strangest photograph, made out of words, the only material capable of capturing the recesses of the soul it exposes. Richard Zenith, 2001 NOTES

Fernando Pessoa

#13. No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#14. I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

Monica

#15. How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

Nora Ephron

#17. What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.

Rachel Sklar

#18. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

Dave Sim

#19. Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.

Abhishek Ratna