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• I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

  Elvis Costello

  Names, People, Would Be

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them.

  Alexander Nehamas

  Book, Philosophical, Thinking

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• You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

  Edward Norton

  Running, Moving, Eye

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

  Shirley Manson

  Artist, Voice, Support

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• The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

  Alfre Woodard

  Real, Thought Provoking, Secret

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• La gente cree que el pop es rock, y las líneas se están difuminando. Ahora Rihanna lleva unas malditas chaquetas de cuero, y es muy molesto... (Mi estilo es el de una prostituta de lujo. Me visto para mí misma. Está claro que es provocativo, pero me hace sentir bien. Y si la única razón por la que incomoda a alguien es porque tengo 17 años, entonces esa persona es una escoria porque no debería importar.

  Taylor Momsen

  Pensar, rocas, chaquetas de cuero

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• To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Beautiful, Struggle, Book

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• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Funny, Life, Business

  Literary Lapses (1910) "Insurance up to Date"

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• My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

  Joya

  Thinking, Records, Way

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• Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

  Matt Haig

  Girly, Vampire, Novel

  Matt Haig (2011). “The Radleys: A Novel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• No existen los antiguos hombres del KGB.

  Vladimir Putin

  Men, Kgb, Former

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• Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

  Judith Martin

  Law, Community, Social Behavior

  "Polite Company". Interview with Hara Estroff Marano, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 1998.

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Criticism

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• Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral and philosophical question: why are some people better than others? Why are some people more moral than others?

  David Bezmozgis

  Philosophical, People, Firsts

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

  Vladimir Putin

  Pigs, Wool, Littles

  "Putin: NSA whistleblower Snowden is in Moscow airport". Speech on an official visit to Finland, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

  Aaron Scharf

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Integrity, Communication, Responsibility

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• Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

  Maude Barlow

  Book, Thinking, Water

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• Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

  Sebastian Junger

  Ideas, Pakistan, Way

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

  Allison Williams

  Running, Smart, Past

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• Thomas Sowell es el intelectual público más importante de Estados Unidos, y con razón. Su obra abarca casi todos los temas imaginables: raza, economía, marxismo, grupos étnicos, patrones de inmigración, por nombrar sólo algunos. Es persuasivo y provocador, y siempre centelleante. He leído todos sus libros y nunca me han decepcionado lo más mínimo. Black Rednecks & White Liberals no es una excepción.

  Fred Barnes

  Book, Redneck, Race

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• Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

  Caridad Svich

  Significar, Escribir, Pensar

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• If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

  Jabari Asim

  Memories, Struggle, Character

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• I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Buddhist, Powerful

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