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Quotes About Controversy

In a 1975 Playboy interview, David Bowie caused a furore when he opined that 'Hitler was the first rock star. He staged a whole country.' Oddly, Bryan Ferry would get into similar hot water in a 2007 interview with a German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag, in which he praised Nazi iconography as 'just amazing' and 'really beautiful' and was later forced to make a public statement of apology.
~ Unknown
Jesucristo hoy no dudaría dos tertulias ni resistiría el escrutinio de sus andanzas por Galilea.
~ David Trueba
Love thy neighbor as thyself . . . as long as he's a Christian. Otherwise, go ahead and kill him. You'll be doing us both a favor, believe me." I
~ David Wilcock
The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.
~ Yann Martel
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
~ Yogi Berra
But there have always been these people for whom rap language is more scandalous than the urban deprivation rap describes.
~ Zadie Smith
Finally, in the crowded third corner, stand the many people who feel rap is not music at all but rather a form of social problem. They have only one question to ask a rapper, and it concerns his choice of vocabulary. (Years pass. The question never changes.)
~ Zadie Smith
I'm against abortion.
~ Charles Evers
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
~ Frederick Pollock
Late-term abortions are unconscionable.
~ Stephen Fincher
There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.
~ Ruth Westheimer
Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
~ Najib Razak
The Internet is an actual dumpster fire.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Kerala is not the place to roll out the RSS agenda.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
~ Mo Udall
Not many people agree with what I do.
~ Guy Kawasaki
A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
~ Allen Iverson
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
~ Yahya Jammeh
You know what, Nickelback's alright.
~ Justin Trudeau
The anchor baby situation has got to stop.
~ Virgil Goode
I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.
~ Azealia Banks
I like to argue with the radio.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Sure, you can argue one way or the other, and I respect those who think Adani should go ahead. I ask for respect in the other direction.
~ Bob Brown