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Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents.
~ Ben Shapiro
'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure.
~ George Foreman
Shooting's not actually a bad place to take a girl on a date, unbelievably.
~ James Haskell
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
I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck
~ W. C. Fields
Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years
~ Tallulah Bankhead
In 1936, Gerhard Gentzen provided a proof of the consistency of arithmetic, but to do it he needed to use a controversial technique known as transfinite induction. This technique is not among the usual methods of proof, and it hardly seemed appropriate for guaranteeing the consistency of arithmetic. What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.
~ Ted Chiang
I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying.
~ Alan Sugar
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.
~ Dave Sim
The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.
~ Alex Stamos
When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
~ Ben Domenech
I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
~ Sean Young
Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.
~ Hillary Clinton
Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
~ Harry J. Anslinger
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
~ Idi Amin
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
~ Indira Gandhi
The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?
~ Frankie Boyle
All birds are bastards.
~ Neal Stephenson
He spread out in his chair like a melting shard of Swiss cheese and informed us: "The only lies I'll ever tell are: 'I won't come in your mouth' and 'I'll just rub it around your ass.'" It wasn't a pretty visual.
~ Neil Strauss
But if I could choose how and when I wanted to die, I would want to be an eighty-year-old man shot by a jealous young husband who had caught me in bed with his teenage wife.
~ Nelson DeMille
their black skin. Further affirming such concepts of black inferiority was a steady stream of authoritative statements by LDS leaders and spokesmen brought forth from the 1830s to the early 1970s.3 Such controversial assertions notwithstanding, major aspects of this thesis has since been incorporated, all or in part, by subsequent scholars in their own studies of Mormonism and race.4 ******************
~ Newell Bringhurst