Quotes About Controversy

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.

Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.

Reid interrupted. "What kind of jokes are we talking about?" We all looked at each other, not sure what to say. Reid tried again, looking at his notes. "It says here, 'Franken made jokes about the Holocaust.' What does that mean?" Diane handed our poll to Harry and pointed to the joke we had tested: "I think a bad Hanukkah gift for Anne Frank would have been a drum set."*

Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.

You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don't like me." "Hard to imagine," she murmured.

was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.

There are many sides to this difficult problem. And people persist in discussing soil-erosion, and tribal decay, and lack of schools, and crime, as though they were all parts of the matter. If you think long enough about it, you will be brought to consider republics, and bilingualism, and immigration, and Palestine, and God knows what. So in a way it is best not to think about it at all.

Social workers are bastards,

Journey fans stole my drugs!

I cannot see the word troubled prefixing the name of some poor starlet who has been dragged through the mire of tabloid spite without vomiting directly onto the newspaper. Troubled by whom? Troubled by you, you fuckwits.

No New York newspaper came to their defence or spoke out for Joyce.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

What galls me is that these sadists always have fans and followers-- and sincere ones at that. The typical example of this is Toscanini.

Call me cynical, but I have difficulty putting much stock in Christianity, when the entirety of the religion was built upon believing an unmarried fifteen-year-old girl's explanation for how she got pregnant.

I absolutely LOVE a one-star review. It means that I successfully pissed someone off enough to make them respond! In an age of sheeple...my God! That's a miracle!!

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.

good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.