It’s a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.
My role is to be ready. I never know what night my name and number is going to be called, but my job is to go out there, be physical, play solid defense, and contribute on the offensive end whenever possible.
I’m an offensive juggernaut. Defense is something I do in my spare time.
If you say, ‘I don’t want to offend anyone,’ then don’t get on stage. Just ask yourself, ‘Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.’
A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed.
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
We don’t realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the ’80s, part of the defense’s goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players… that’s fading away.
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
I make it a point to listen to a song before being a part of it to ensure that there is nothing offensive or downgrading.
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.
There’s no more skilled position in football than the offensive line.
I like offensive, technical, and quick football – exactly in the style of Arsenal.
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I’m a mudder. Football’s just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.
If I’m not scoring, I better do something on the offensive end.
It’s different to have your head coach be in the offensive meeting room going through every play, every detail to every guy, telling them why they need to run this way or what this concept is.
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.
My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me – he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.
I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.
You have to have a great offensive line, great quarterback and guys around you that believe in you and help you.
A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of ideas and look at me and make an Asian joke. Which is very different for blacks and Latinos. You can’t say certain things because everyone is cognizant of when things are and should be offensive. Asians don’t have that luxury.
Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We’re better than that. It’s frankly offensive and archaic and it makes me so angry I want to punch a wall.
Poking fun at other people’s beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
I’m not the voice of reason; I’m more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.
Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with ‘The Office’ the naturalism was everything so it didn’t feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
One of the most offensive actions by the IRS is its continued unlawful seizures of money and assets of innocent Americans, called civil asset forfeiture.
You know, I just feel physically that I can get a lot of offensive rebounds.
As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.
We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.
Hillary talks the talk, but in my view, she is as big a corporatist, as big a war monger, as big an imperialist as any of the Republican presidential candidates. Her rhetoric is less offensive.
I want to be an offensive player, too. Play low post, midrange, take jump shots, and just be the best I can be.
What does this Heidi Parker look like pregnant? What does she look like first thing in the morning? Or bending over? What do any of these bloody ‘journalists’ look like that makes them find the normal appearance of celebrities so offensive?
I’ve made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.
I’ve always believed that. I’m not a guy who comes in with an offensive system, and we try to fit guys to it. I think it goes the other way. ‘Here’s who we’ve got. Let’s put them in the right spots where they can be productive.’
Say what you will about President Trump’s tone, tactics or tweeting, but even his most strident critics admit he’s at his best when on the offensive.
We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn’t found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.
Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.
Isn’t it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?
I’ve been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It’s inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I’ve offended them, and that will be that.
A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that’s the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people’s hands and doing what I do best.
I don’t talk much to offensive linemen in general.
Every once in a while, friends leave sarcastic comments on photos. I know they’re joking, but the sarcastic humor doesn’t always translate well when I am sitting behind my screen reading it. In person, it’s easier to play it off as a joke, but online, it can come across as offensive.
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
When I defend, it keeps me patient and lets my game come to me on the offensive end.
It feels dangerous when people say, ‘Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.’ And offensive. As if I’m standing there with my planner thinking, ‘OK, where’s the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?’
Writing songs is a profession; so it’s not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
There’s absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven’t heard before. You’d have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.
Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero – a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
I can shoot the 3. I can play off the catch. I get offensive rebounds. And I still have a lot of energy left to defend.
What is offensive is different for everyone.
When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you’re going to have the ability to win a lot of games.
