Quotes About Controversial

'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

Those who have a personality like Balotelli do things that other people maybe wouldn't. Balotelli sometimes does things that look strange and unbelievable. But maybe for him it's just a way to feel normal. He doesn't want to cause problems or upset people.

Pretty sure I always say things that upset people, get under people's skin.

I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.

I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at but I wouldn't like to own one.

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I went to Eton, that's a slightly controversial issue, but it's an interesting subject to try and come across as likable and self-aware and possibly even defeat a couple of stereotypes.

Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Art fairs are a lot like professional proms - you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you're always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.

I don't like the people, the guys who feel the need to be Donald Trump and say outlandish things just for the sake of being in the headline, just for the sake of creating a stir and getting their name out there.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.