Innovators are inevitably controversial.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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.
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. . . . A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. . . . A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out.
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial. . . I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.
I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.
In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.