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• I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Emotional, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Fun, Hard Work, Compliment

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

  Hyon Gyon

  Dancing, Laughing, Singing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Names, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

  Judy Dater

  Disturbing

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• I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Campaigns, Helping, Grass

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• I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

  Frida Giannini

  Dna, Needs, Want

  Interview with Nick Smith, www.gq.com.au. April 19, 2012.

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• I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Dancer, Buttons

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• Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Risk, Important, Candid

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

  Colin Farrell

  Rights, Judging, Opinion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Commitment, Hands, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.

  Richard Kern

  Girl, Photography, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

  Judy Dater

  Wrinkles, People, Thought Provoking

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• There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

  Andres Serrano

  Art, Looks, I Can

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• The broadcasting industry definitely has changed, and I'm talking about young broadcasters who come along today, they really feel like they have to do something that's outlandish to make them stand out. They have to say something provocative that maybe they don't even really truly believe in their heart and, it's not really what their beliefs are, but they're going to sacrifice their beliefs to try to do something to gain attention.

  Jim Nantz

  Believe, Heart, Sacrifice

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Heart, Personality

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• It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

  Billy Corgan

  Order, Doe, Generations

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.

  Baruch Halpern

  Space, Chocolate, Might

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• Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Everyone now, they look back and they're like, "What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?" And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please.

  Britney Spears

  Sweet, Winning, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, "60 Minutes", November 23, 2003.

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• I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Art, New York, Fun

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

  John Legend

  Fun, Thinking, Talking

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, Done, Vulgar

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is going to be a really Twilight Zonish situation. It is definitely interesting. Once Google is in a blood cell sized device in our brain, do we become part Google? There are certainly interesting things to think about and provocative questions, but I don't think those provocative questions are going to do anything to slow down the onset of these technologies arriving and becoming even more pervasive.

  Jason Silva

  Twilight, Technology, Thinking

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• I do not want to answer provocative question.

  Vladimir Putin

  Answers, Want

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