Controversial Quotes - Page 4

• I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

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• If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind Blowing, Hussein

  "Obama cites Scripture to defend policy forcing schools to let boys in girls’ bathrooms" by Ben Johnson, www.lifesitenews.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings]

  Billy Bowden

  Honesty, Hate, Nice

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• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

  Karl Pearson

  Husband, Science, Medicine

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• Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

  Megan Fox

  Eight, Mouths, Offensive

  "Megan Fox Calls Her Power Over Men 'Supernatural'". Interview with Scott Huver, people.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

  Mark McKinnon

  Hot And Cold, Names, Sparks

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• My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

  Sean Penn

  Fleeing, Stories, Interest

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Powerful, Issues

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• It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

  Shimon Peres

  Reason, Wrong Reasons

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• The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

  John Gresham Machen

  Sound, Phrases, Matter

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.1, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Book, Philosophical, Thinking

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• If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

  Pharrell Williams

  Jobs, Couple, Artist

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Decision, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.95, Routledge

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• I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  People, Brave, May

  "Housing Works Is Helping to Heal the Human Race" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

  Billy Graham

  Misunderstood, Facts, Hell

  Billy Graham (2011). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Alternatives, Eritrea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

  Audie Cornish

  Years, Firsts, Prison

  "Obama Proposes Plan To Close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Careers, Colonialism

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Going Away, Storm

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

  Tim Wu

  Neutrality, Complicated, Reason

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Circles, Vocabulary

  Source: ilga.org

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