I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.
Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed.
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
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