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• Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigned in New York this week, where he stepped up his controversial goal of helping children.... It's all summed up in his campaign slogan, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cutting violence in half with a laser-guided chain gun across a charred landscape - for the children.'

  Jon Stewart

  New York, Children, Cutting

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• When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Baby, Couple

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• I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Two, Black, Want

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

  Milton Friedman

  Thoughtful, Issues, Done

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• For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.

  Sarah Weddington

  Leadership, Issues, Desire

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Closure, Requiem

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• The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

  Elaine Pagels

  Dream, War, Book

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• Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Book, Class

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• How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

  Chris Lilley

  Summer, Writing, Height

  "Controversial Lilley says it’s all about the story" by David Knox, tvtonight.com.au. April 3, 2011.

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• My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

  Lady Gaga

  Home, Controversial Topics, World

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Trying, Easy

  Source: mancunion.com

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• On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

  David Platt

  Christian, Issues, Speaks Out

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.13, Tyndale House

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• I try not to get political, I don't want to get religious, I don't want to get controversial, I just want to have a show that relates to everybody.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Religious, Political, Trying

  "'The Fluffy Movie' Interview with Comedian Gabriel Iglesias". Interview with Nick Allen, thescorecardreview.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Issues, Leader

  "President, Peanut Farmer and Sunday School Teacher". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

  Peter Webber

  Drama, Men, Males

  "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.

  Marshall Curry

  Trouble, Terrorist, Filmmaker

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• Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

  Edward Kennedy

  Yield, Political Will, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.

  Oren Moverman

  Thinking, Games, People

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• There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

  Deborah Rhode

  Integrity, Judging, Example

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change. It has the ability to put big, complex, and controversial subjects across in an easy-to-understand and digestible form. It has the power to change someone's perspective on the world in a very short space of time - film has the power to change the world itself.

  Sam Branson

  Powerful, Believe, Space

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• As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

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• I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

  Andrew Weil

  Jobs, Thinking, Ifs

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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