Controversial Quotes - Page 4

• Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

  Audie Cornish

  Years, Firsts, Prison

  "Obama Proposes Plan To Close Guantanamo Bay Detention Center". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.

  Rem Koolhaas

  School, Careers, Colonialism

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Views, Controversial Topics

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There`s a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we thought we knew who seems to have changed in a profound way and become this much more kind of [ controversial] person .

  John Heilemann

  Profound, Guy, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  T Bone Burnett

  Guitar, People, Bob

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

  John Heilemann

  Defense, Substance, Adviser

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• I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Arrogant, Figures

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• Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Going Away, Storm

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

  Tim Wu

  Neutrality, Complicated, Reason

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.

  Barack Obama

  Artist, Men, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Circles, Vocabulary

  Source: ilga.org

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• There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.

  Peter Adamson

  Believe, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind Blowing, Hussein

  "Obama cites Scripture to defend policy forcing schools to let boys in girls’ bathrooms" by Ben Johnson, www.lifesitenews.com. June 2, 2016.

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• A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

  Steven Tyler

  Country, Book, Black And White

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• I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

  David Suchet

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

  Karl Pearson

  Husband, Science, Medicine

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• I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge [on Steve Waugh's last innings]

  Billy Bowden

  Honesty, Hate, Nice

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• Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Real, Century, Science And Religion

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Megan Fox

  Eight, Mouths, Offensive

  "Megan Fox Calls Her Power Over Men 'Supernatural'". Interview with Scott Huver, people.com. September 17, 2009.

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• The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.

  Rick Santorum

  Hate, Fighting, Talking

  "Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'". www.politico.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

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• I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.

  Andrew Weil

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Believe, White

  "The Elephant in the Room | Mitt Romney and religion; politics and faith" by Rick Santorum, www.philly.com. December 20, 2007.

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