I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn’t get attention. That’s the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
I always feel that comedy, at its best, tackles issues that are controversial, polarizing, volatile, and sheds light onto those issues and the people involved.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that’s when things get bent.
In order to eliminate injustices and to ensure there would be less controversy, I would introduce technology that would make refereeing better.
I’m not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It’s probably just because I’m a weird person.
I was controversy’s favorite wild child.
Yeah, I am controversy’s favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.
If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.
As far as controversies are concerned, as an actor for the first time when there was something written about me I was affected. But then I decided that this is part of my profession.
I lost to Lennox Lewis in a very controversial decision.
When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours… you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, ‘That’s not the case.’ And the relationships that you’ve built… come to the fore.
Sometimes you’re more involved in controversy, and at other times, you’re disconnected.
I don’t feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.
I have appeared on ‘The Dr. Oz show’ and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Controversy sells, politics sell, all that type of stuff sells.
I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
Mr. Trump’s election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising – just as it has in media more generally – and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive.
I don’t like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.
Indeed, there’s scarcely a week that goes by where I don’t deal with a significant, often controversial national security issue.
I’m not doing Pulitzer Prize work where I’m unearthing major negative stories about the UFC or some big controversies. It’s just kind of day-to-day fodder.
I’m a shocker. I like to create controversy. It’s my trademark.
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I’ve made have been very, very bold choices.
‘Requiem’ has been controversial because people don’t feel I gave it closure.
I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
After the ‘Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain’ controversy, people believed they made my career, but I now maintain that ‘Bigg Boss’ made Shilpa Shinde.
I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn’t dip it into more ink.
I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don’t like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I’m afraid it will not be controversial.
I don’t like controversy.
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
‘Human’ was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.
We don’t back down from controversy – we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don’t.
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
Just because someone is holding a gun doesn’t make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
I don’t want to sound disingenuous here – controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion – in my view, a good thing.
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.
It occurred to me that by naming the film itself ‘Dear White People,’ I could tap into the burgeoning meme culture as well as make a meta-commentary about the controversies within the film.
It was controversial when we were settling on what the races should be in ‘Warcraft 3!’
The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn’t yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.
Who knows controversies better than me? The controversies always chase people who are active and decision makers.
Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we’re great at storylines; we’re great at drawing money. We’re great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.
I’m going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we’re doing with data has not changed; there’s just more of it.
Jindal’s record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.
This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don’t mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.
The way you advance a technological society is to try things – to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, ‘I told you it was a great idea.’
There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
