William S. Burroughs
Writer
"There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business."
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Provocative
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Eleanor Brown
Author
"A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level."
Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative."
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"I like to be provocative."
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"The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time."
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"Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married."
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