Controversy Quotes - Page 17

• Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

  Yoko Ono

  Touch Me, Shaking

  Song: Kiss Kiss Kiss

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• To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

  Vanilla Ice

  Rocks, Extremes, Mike

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• You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

  John Fogerty

  Running, Men, Old Man

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• Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

  Michael Jackson

  Jew

  "Song: "They Don’t Care About Us"". 1996.

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• LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Fall, Broken, Laughing

  Song: Death Blow

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• Short people got no reason to live.

  Randy Newman

  People, Reason, Short People

  Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals

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• Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

  Van Morrison

  Girl, Making Love, Green

  Song: Brown eyed girl

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• Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  Paul Simon

  Mama

  Song: Kodachrome

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• My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

  Chuck Berry

  Play

  Song: My Ding A Ling

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• The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

  Peter Gabriel

  Black And White, Color, World

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• Suicide is the only way out.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Suicide, Way

  Song: Suicide Solution, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

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• Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

  Neil Young

  Book, Men, Southern

  Song: Southern Man

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• My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

  George Harrison

  Sweet, Krishna, Lord

  Song: My Sweet Lord

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• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  Al Pacino

  Risk, Acting, Who Cares

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• Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

  Steve Coogan

  Christmas, Jesus, Years

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• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

  William Bennett

  Education, Character, People

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

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• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

  David Copperfield

  Secret, Youth, Fountain

  "David Copperfield discovers fountain of youth" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

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• The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

  Paula Poundstone

  Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

  "Richard Lewis, Julie Halston, Paula Poundstone and More Set for August Comedy Nights at Bay Street". www.broadwayworld.com. July 27, 2016.

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• In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explication of the terms commonly ends the controversy, and the disputants are surprised to find that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.

  David Hume

  Lying, Science, Reality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• In mathematics there are no true controversies.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mathematics

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• The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, Understanding, Opponents

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• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Scripture, Matter

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• Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Boston, Talking

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• I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

  Amanda Palmer

  Journey, Flames, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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