Controversy Quotes - Page 16

• The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Punishment, Long, Murder

  1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.

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• Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Couple, Thinking, Acting

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• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  Nicholson Baker

  Wikipedia, Facts, Incredibles

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

  Brenda Fassie

  Trademarks

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  Tammy Bruce

  Important, Details, Enlightening

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• We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Numbers, People, Decision

  "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

  Eminem

  Kings, Black, Use

  Song: Without Me

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• Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.

  Donna Summer

  Baby, Love You, Love You Baby

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• He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

  Jethro Tull

  Fun, Fall, Angel

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• I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

  Ray Davies

  Clubs, Soho, Taste

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• I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Body, Want, Let Me

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• If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Strange, Ghost, Busters

  Song: Ghost Busters

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• I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

  Justin Timberlake

  Song, Naked, Ends

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• To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

  Vanilla Ice

  Rocks, Extremes, Mike

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• Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

  Yoko Ono

  Touch Me, Shaking

  Song: Kiss Kiss Kiss

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• Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

  Chuck Berry

  Flats

  Song: You Can't Catch Me

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• Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

  John Fogerty

  Stealing

  Song: Vanz Kant Danz

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• Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

  Sheryl Crow

  Children, Gun, Watches

  Song: Love Is A Good Thing, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

  Iris DeMent

  Fighting, Minimum Wage, Pay

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• You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

  John Fogerty

  Running, Men, Old Man

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• You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

  Barry McGuire

  Believe, Destruction, My Friends

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

  Edward Irving

  Giving, Gone, Form

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• You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy.

  Michael Isikoff

  Party, Issues, Different

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• I am used to controversies.

  Sharad Pawar

  Used

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• To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Bridges, Support

  "Lawrence Wright brings Mideast conflict to stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, www.boston.com. October 7, 2010.

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