Quotes of: Controversy Keyword

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.

Garry Trudeau

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

Ehud Olmert

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

John Barton

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Hugh Grant

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

Gina McCarthy

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Carre Otis

This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.

David Suzuki

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Carolyn Maloney

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

Eric Fellner

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Amanda Palmer

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

Jill Lepore

I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy.

She Smells the Dead

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Geoffrey Fisher

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Ndamukong Suh

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Stanley Hauerwas

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

Salman Rushdie

He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.

Keith Carradine

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

Lauren Oliver