Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It’s harsh and sometimes gritty, but it’s real. Why should we tip toe around that?

We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

There’s a lot of personal and political controversy around this decision, but it just seems to me that this was a group of professionals, of health experts, who made a decision based on what’s best...

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

help a news organization deal with controversy because it brings it out into the open.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

News is not just about information from media, it’s the current revelation of the two changing worlds of the good and the dark worlds.

We really should be close to 100 percent on all of these measures. There’s not much controversy about whether giving antibiotics to someone who has pneumonia is good or not.

If you believe that I’m a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Stigma’s power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label...

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren’t quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

It would help a news organization deal with controversy because it brings it out into the open. If you believe as I do that we’re an honest, hard-working news organization, all you need to do...

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

When this whole controversy over the day laborers broke, the county executive was very troubled by it. He is concerned that there’s a feeling of intolerance and he feels that Westchester County is better than...

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can’t help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I’m quite amazed sometimes by the way...

There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more...

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they...

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