Quotes About Controversy

In 'Dhanam,' I play a call girl, who has revolutionary ideas.

I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!

I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.

Duke has had many lightning rods over the years, it's a long list of 'em, a long list of white Duke basketball players that have been lightning rods. I didn't fully understand it before I came to Duke, but obviously I do now.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

I am pleased to be endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Like Sheriff Joe, I believe that illegal immigration is a major problem that undermines the rule of law.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

There's plenty of people I don't like that we put fights on with. It's not up to me whether I like them or dislike them, it's what the fans want to see.

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.

I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet - and a pretty exciting one.

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

What we get in the States is a pro-Palestinian point of view.

Clinton's a schmuck.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.