Tag - Provocation Quotes

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Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

– Sergei Lavrov

Sarah Palin

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

– Sarah Palin

Rithy Panh

The Missing Picture’ came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

– Rithy Panh

Patrick Chappatte

Some felt as if ‘Charlie Hebdo’ was obsessed with its ‘Screw Allah’ stance. It’s a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

– Patrick Chappatte

Octavia Spencer

I’m probably the most militant person you’ll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

– Octavia Spencer

Michael Haneke

Funny Games’ was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that’s quite different. ‘Funny Games’ is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

– Michael Haneke

Michael Franti

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don’t want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.

– Michael Franti

Meles Zenawi

I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal… And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war – against poverty.

– Meles Zenawi

Mark Strong

The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from.

– Mark Strong

Kehinde Wiley

When I’m at my best, I’m trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don’t have all the answers.

– Kehinde Wiley

John Vane

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.

– John Vane

John Tillotson

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

– John Tillotson

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