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Provocative Quotes

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I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Helen Suzman

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.
David Talbot

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Rupert Murdoch

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
Duane Michals

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Christopher Darden

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
Julie London

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

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
Catherine Deneuve

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
David Rockefeller

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
Isaac Barrow

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
Llewelyn Powys

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.
Robin Wright Penn

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.
Rudy Giuliani

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
Roger Vadim

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
John McTiernan

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.
Jeff Goldblum

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell

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