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I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
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Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.


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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.


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I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.


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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
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One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.


Flannery O'Connor
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas de Quincey
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.


Angela Merkel
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.
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I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.


Marco Brambilla
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.
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I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
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