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America deserved 9/11 dude, f**k it I'm saying it.
~ Hasan Piker
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
~ Havelock Ellis
I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.
~ Laurie Frankel
ANDERSON: Who copped your cherry? MRS. EVERLEIGH: My brother Ernie. Does that shock you? ANDERSON: Why should it? I'm from Kentucky.
~ Lawrence Sanders
The Americans went into Pakistan to shoot that camel-fucker. Compared to that, crossing the US-Mexico border to cap him would be as risky as the secretary of defense sending a secretary to Starbucks to get him a latte.
~ Lee Goldberg
Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible right-wing Nazi thing—violent, racist, and against everything good in life.
~ Legs McNeil
WILLIAM BURROUGHS: I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.
~ Legs McNeil
Raisins are healthy, and they are inexpensive, and some people may even find them delicious. But they are rarely considered helpful.
~ Lemony Snicket
Perhaps telling realistically what slavery was like for slaves is the easy part. After all, slavery as an institution is dead. We have progressed beyond it, so we can acknowledge its evils. Slavery's twin legacies to the present are the social and economic inferiority it conferred upon blacks and the cultural racism it instilled in whites. Both continue to haunt our society. Therefore, treating slavery's enduring legacy is necessarily controversial. Unlike slavery, racism is not over yet.
~ James W. Loewen
You may adore Love You Forever, but I hear it as a story about an overbearing and smothering mother who infantilizes her son and can only tell him she loves him when he is fast asleep. I also contend that she drugs his cocoa. And that when the man's baby daughter wakes up sixteen years later and finds him fondling her in her room, she will be calling 911 and going into therapy.
~ Jane Yolen
You know nothing. You're nothing but a skank-ass, pencil-dick hemorrhoid. And you smell like anal leakage." "Say what?
~ Janet Evanovich
The most prominent - and by far the most controversial - part of 'Help to Work' essentially forces people to take unpaid work placements as a condition of receiving their benefits.
~ Emily Thornberry
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
~ Salman Rushdie
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
~ Vivienne Westwood
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
~ Paul Robeson
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
~ Grimes
Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
~ David Limbaugh
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
The very nature of 'UnREAL' is that we are provocative, uncensored, and brutally tactless.
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.
~ Richard Cohen
There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
~ Kara Walker
Obamacare is unaffordable, unworkable and unsustainable.
~ Kim Reynolds
Trump is just extraordinarily unusual.
~ Jesse Armstrong
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
~ Gertrude Stein