Vanilla Ice
Rapper
"To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal."
Controversy quotes
Controversy
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off."
Andrew Young
Civil Rights Leader
"If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent."
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"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
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"In the midnight hour I can feel your power..."
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"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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"If it matters, it produces controversy."
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"I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington."
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"Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away."
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"Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away."
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"Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside."
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"I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it."
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