Provocative Quotes

• No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Good Night, Sight, Sky

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

  Marc Jacobs

  Sexy, Thinking, Keys

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GO Interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

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• I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, Ems, Television

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• We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who have a personal experience, a deep connection to the horror and the pain of this country`s provocative racial history. If the president wants to have a better understanding and appreciation for what he should do next, he needs to hear something from folks who have gone through this painful history. Without that personal connection to the painful past, it will be hard for him to regain that moral authority from my perspective.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Appreciation, Pain

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

  Isaac Barrow

  Sin, Judgment, Divine

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.390

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• There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mind Your Own Business, Minding My Own Business, Mind Your Own

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.117, Holt Paperbacks

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• A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

  Nalini Singh

  Running, Hair, Attention

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.84, Penguin

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• I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

  Mark Lanegan

  Life, Musician, Publicity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I naturally want to be provocative.

  Iggy Azalea

  Want

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

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• It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Character, Loss, Defeat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Prison

  "Russia calls emergency session at UN" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• It's more provocative to say 'might still have sex' because - it doesn't matter to me. There's not, like, one that hurts my feelings and one that doesn't.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Sex, Feelings

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Married

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.

  Seungri

  Attention

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Important, Way

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• Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

  Diane Sawyer

  Smart, Four, Needs

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• When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

  Bell Hooks

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  People, Bait, Understood

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

  Matthea Harvey

  Giving, Asking, Answers

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.

  Jussi Lehtisalo

  Black, Scared, Moments

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, Thinking, Controversial

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• The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

  Alan Coren

  Mean, Policy, Accidents

  The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions 'A Short History of Insurance'

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