Top 100 Controversial Quotes

#1. People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Controversial Quotes #2417
#2. controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

Wil Haygood

Controversial Quotes #6983
#3. 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

Controversial Quotes #7584
#4. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

Oscar Levant

Controversial Quotes #10524
#5. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.

Robert Kroese

Controversial Quotes #12337
#6. Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Gabrielle Zevin

Controversial Quotes #15622
#7. I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

Jessicka

Controversial Quotes #40982
#8. Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

Mark McKinnon

Controversial Quotes #43928
#9. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.

Robert Redford

Controversial Quotes #55733
#10. The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

Jimmy Wales

Controversial Quotes #66511
#11. Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

Eric Fellner

Controversial Quotes #70661
#12. An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.

Craig M. Mullaney

Controversial Quotes #80153
#13. Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

Kalle Lasn

Controversial Quotes #86986
#14. I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.

James Blake

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#15. 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

Controversial Quotes #100212
#16. Of course, the methods for human population control are enormously controversial. One contraceptive measure seems to be humane and acceptable: If you teach calculus to teenage girls, they go on to have far fewer babies. Calculus is the contraceptive of the future. It doesn't work for boys.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Controversial Quotes #100896
#17. 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

Adam Driver

Controversial Quotes #108891
#18. No controversy, no PR.

Tim Fargo

Controversial Quotes #115724
#19. When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

Controversial Quotes #118118
#20. In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

Tim Howard

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#21. I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

Yony Leyser

Controversial Quotes #124916
#22. Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yotam Ottolenghi

Controversial Quotes #127235
#23. I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

Controversial Quotes #135239
#24. When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a herd. It takes just one steer to start a stampede.

Ryan Holiday

Controversial Quotes #149630
#25. If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Julian Assange

Controversial Quotes #149891
#26. Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

Dolly Parton

Controversial Quotes #166604
#27. I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

Slick Rick

Controversial Quotes #168582
#28. I'm not a controversial person. I'm not trying to polarise people.

Russell Tovey

Controversial Quotes #172192
#29. That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Norman Lear

Controversial Quotes #176836
#30. The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

Wes Smith

Controversial Quotes #180051
#31. I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

Donna Brazile

Controversial Quotes #185443
#32. If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

Shimon Peres

Controversial Quotes #189877
#33. On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?"
"Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you."
"Je t'adore aussi. Call me. Bye."
"Bye.

David Cronenberg

Controversial Quotes #193349
#34. Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

Sarah Wollaston

Controversial Quotes #196444
#35. I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

Camilla Lackberg

Controversial Quotes #205449
#36. 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.

Rebecca Pidgeon

Controversial Quotes #207721
#37. What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Sonny Rollins

Controversial Quotes #208703
#38. The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Edward Abbey

Controversial Quotes #216734
#39. 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

Controversial Quotes #230544
#40. Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Eva Le Gallienne

Controversial Quotes #232350
#41. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

Barack Obama

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#42. Not a single rumor whispered on the wind here. He was too high up for such lowly experiences, too removed from the mundane and the pain. For these few blessed moments the rushing sensations blew away his controversial existence. And he smiled.

Jesikah Sundin

Controversial Quotes #245411
#43. It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

Max Baucus

Controversial Quotes #247265
#44. My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

John F. Kennedy

Controversial Quotes #247531
#45. God forbid you should be bereft, Miz Mimi," I'd said. "Tell you what. If you let me pick the play - something not too controversial, I promise - I'll do it." Her frown had disappeared into the brilliant Mimi Corcoran

Stephen King

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#46. There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Cullen Hightower

Controversial Quotes #252820
#47. For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.

Sarah Weddington

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#48. If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

Roger Stone

Controversial Quotes #266901
#49. 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.

Cynthia Nixon

Controversial Quotes #267094
#50. An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

Steven Berkoff

Controversial Quotes #268112
#51. Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting ... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

Adam Driver

Controversial Quotes #277386
#52. We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

Bill Maher

Controversial Quotes #281774
#53. When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Gustave Courbet

Controversial Quotes #289289
#54. I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ so powerfully that no truly converted person could ever be aligned with these controversial concepts and procedures contrary to the Lord's plan of salvation.

Harold B. Lee

Controversial Quotes #294920
#55. 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

Milton Berle

Controversial Quotes #304284
#56. The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Carolyn Maloney

Controversial Quotes #313315
#57. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

Jonathan Turley

Controversial Quotes #315935
#58. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

Controversial Quotes #316713
#59. I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Madonna Ciccone

Controversial Quotes #319983
#60. I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

Kandyse McClure

Controversial Quotes #321912
#61. I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

Howard Dean

Controversial Quotes #323093
#62. I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

Dorothy Draper

Controversial Quotes #340936
#63. My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

Lady Gaga

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#64. The difference between a debater and a polemicist is that unlike debaters, who try to seek a common ground, a polemicist intends to establish the truth of a controversial point of view while refuting the opposing point of view - there is no room for compromise.

Henrik O. Lunde

Controversial Quotes #351735
#65. I think the reason that drones have become so controversial is because they're used in Pakistan; they're used in Yemen; they've been used in all kinds of places.

Tim Kaine

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#66. How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Edward Abbey

Controversial Quotes #359821
#67. I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial.

Ice-T

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#68. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Erma Bombeck

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#69. There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

Lara Giddings

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#70. As many reports reveal, the CIA continues to cultivate "assets" in the mainstream media, and meets with top editors to to discourage or delay the publication of controversial news.

Anonymous

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#71. I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

Bjorn Borg

Controversial Quotes #388155
#72. I do believe that Israel is covenant land. That's very controversial, but I read the Bible literally, and I believe that God gave them that land, all the way back to Deuteronomy.

James Dobson

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#73. During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going.

James W. Black

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#74. With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha

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#75. 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.

Angela Merkel

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#76. Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

Eugenie Scott

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#77. I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

Margaret Thatcher

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#78. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Seth Godin

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#79. I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Robin Thicke

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

Abhishek Ratna

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#81. 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.

Lilly Singh

Controversial Quotes #446664
#82. Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that intelligence, as well as less controversial traits of temperament, are in large part hereditary.

Murray Rothbard

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#83. It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Beth Ditto

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#84. My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

George Bernard Shaw

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#85. I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

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#86. I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Avigdor Lieberman

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#87. The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Taylor

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#88. I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

Elvis Presley

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#89. If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon

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#90. First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

Saul Alinsky

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#91. Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Siri Hustvedt

Controversial Quotes #497501
#92. I mean, I believe in mountains and all, but I understand it's a controversial viewpoint. I would never force that viewpoint on others.

Joseph Fink

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#93. I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

Marco Brambilla

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#94. 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.

Ariel Pink

Controversial Quotes #531248
#95. I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader.

Michael Che

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#96. And a rather controversial one for birth control that had nevertheless quickly become the most often used rune in the lexicon.

Cassandra Clare

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#97. American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

Pontus Hulten

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#98. In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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#99. Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

Richard Flanagan

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#100. I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Barbara Bush

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