Provocative Quotes - Page 4

• I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sake

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Russia, Needs

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• Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.

  Jay Winik

  War, Assessment, Battle

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• It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

  Billy Corgan

  Order, Doe, Generations

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend that he who does the surgery does it so you'll have nothing growing back afterward.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islamic, Doe, Moscow

  "The EU's Chechnya challenge" by Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

  Judy Dater

  Wrinkles, People, Thought Provoking

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• There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

  Andres Serrano

  Art, Looks, I Can

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• I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Heart, Personality

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• When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

  Judy Dater

  Disturbing

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• We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

  John Legend

  Fun, Thinking, Talking

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

  Colin Farrell

  Rights, Judging, Opinion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I like to be provocative.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is going to be a really Twilight Zonish situation. It is definitely interesting. Once Google is in a blood cell sized device in our brain, do we become part Google? There are certainly interesting things to think about and provocative questions, but I don't think those provocative questions are going to do anything to slow down the onset of these technologies arriving and becoming even more pervasive.

  Jason Silva

  Twilight, Technology, Thinking

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Risk, Important, Candid

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Commitment, Hands, White

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me. It's not just clothing or style that I had interest in, it was more the marketing side of things that I had intrigue in.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Style, Marketing

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• Everyone now, they look back and they're like, "What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?" And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please.

  Britney Spears

  Sweet, Winning, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, "60 Minutes", November 23, 2003.

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• I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Art, New York, Fun

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

  George Meyer

  People, Car, Because I Can

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

  Frida Giannini

  Dna, Needs, Want

  Interview with Nick Smith, www.gq.com.au. April 19, 2012.

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• Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

  Alain de Botton

  Religious, Atheist, Journey

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Dancer, Buttons

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