Provocative Quotes - Page 5

• I think the role of the artist today is about being provocative. I don't mean shocking, but you have to provoke people into action. As an artist, you ask people for their time. It's the most precious thing anyone has. I'm asking audiences to come to my work and spend some time with it. What I'm really doing, of course, is asking people to take time for themselves.

  Mira Calix

  Mean, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

  Elia Suleiman

  Silence, Resistance, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

  George Meyer

  People, Car, Because I Can

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.

  Jay Winik

  War, Assessment, Battle

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• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Russia, Needs

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

  Vladimir Putin

  White, Giving, House

  "Putin rejects 'child-killer talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. September 7, 2004.

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• Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

  Alain de Botton

  Religious, Atheist, Journey

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• America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

  Vladimir Putin

  America, Development, Cleansing

  "Putin talks NSA, Syria, Iran, drones in RT interview". Interview with Margarita Simonyan, Oksana Boyko, www.rt.com. June 12, 2013.

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• If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islamic, Doe, Moscow

  "The EU's Chechnya challenge" by Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly opened new perspectives. Visionary and avant-garde, his creations took their inspiration from both tradition and timeless hyper-modernity.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Fashion, Inspiration, Perspective

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• That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Consciousness, Torture

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

  David LaChapelle

  Entertainment, Entertaining, Industry

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• I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

  Lady Gaga

  Fun, Eccentric, Tone

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• Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, Vivid

  Ivars Peterson (1998). “The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Two, Interesting

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• High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

  Robert C. Solomon

  Art, Emotional, Class

  Robert C. Solomon (1970). “Entertaining Ideas: Popular Philosophical Essays, 1970-1990”

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• I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way and I am also looking for roles that I think will force me to grow or learn something about myself or the world in order to play them well.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  America, Needs, Right Now

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was rejected many times. I cried. I was told that female actors are replaceable in films because they just stand behind a guy anyway. I'm still used to being paid - like most actresses around the world - a lot less than the boys. We're told we're too provocative or that being sexy is our strength, which it can be, and it is, but that's not the only thing we have. But women have incredible endurance and incredible strength. Your ability to deal with it is within you.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Sexy, Boys, Guy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Philosophy, Book

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• Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.

  Bobby Jindal

  Evil, Giving, Islam

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

  Akon

  Thinking, Getting Older, Want

  "Akon Says His Age is a 'Mystery'". www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2009.

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