#controversy

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#david #director #great #hate #him

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#controversy #interest #subject #thing

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fools #know #men #wise #wise men

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#controversy #create #done #i #i think

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. ↗

— Julian Assange

#abusers #always #bad #believe #controversy

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy. ↗

— John Barton

#board #canada #caused #controversy #deal

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#controversy #dispute #exact #gains #most

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret! ↗

— David Copperfield

#caused #controversy #discovered #fountain #i

People like controversy because that's what sells. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#controversy #like #people #sells

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗