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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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• Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Philosophy, Believe, Problem

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these provocative words that insult them. "Islamic terrorism" is a phrase not permitted to be used by the US government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islamic, Government, Phrases

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

  Olivier Rousteing

  Fashion, Art, Strong

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I like to be provocative. I like to make people think. I like to touch people's hearts. And if I can do all three of those things in one fell swoop, then I feel like I've really accomplished something.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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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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• 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 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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• White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

  Tim DeKay

  Smart, Fbi Agents, White

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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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• And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

  Veena Sud

  Powerful, Interesting, Cynical

  Source: deadline.com

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• Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Reading, Growth, Analysis

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• Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

  Biz Stone

  Creative, Challenges, Wakes You

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.

  Deborah Harkness

  Together, Fundamentals, Schmidt

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• There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

  Roger Vadim

  Sensual, Natural, Shocking

  The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1988.

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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• I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love beautiful shoes and jewellery. But the erotic work I do is too daring and provocative for a fashion magazine. It's more fun, and if you have the right girl who likes it, more exciting, too. It's fashion photography, but with fewer clothes.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Beautiful, Girl, Photography

  "Photographer Ellen von Unwerth's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Terrorist

  "World Service Listeners About International Terrorism", RUVR, January 29, 2008.

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• Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Blood, Hands

  "Vladimir Putin calls John McCain 'nuts' in outspoken attack" by Alex Spillius, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 15, 2011.

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• Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Different, Firsts, Poetry Is

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• Provocative and challenging The Social License makes a compelling case for why companies must look to increase their positive social impact as an integral part of their core business strategies.

  Paul Polman

  Impact, Challenges, Looks

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

  Rob Bell

  Thinking, Goal, Noble

  "The Good News Is Better Than That: Reflections On Hell, Salvation and the Power of Love" by Rob Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

  Dorothy Allison

  Shy, Scared, Complicated

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