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Quotes about Provocation

I love when guys come at the beginning of the game and start talking trash. It gets me going.
— Joel Embiid
I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.
— Joel Embiid
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
— Duke Ellington
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Writing is a form of mischief.
— Stephen Sondheim
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
— John Maxwell
Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
— Margaret Atwood
call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's living room. Watching all this out of the corners of her eyes while serving the liqueurs, Sally feels the Aztec rise within her. Trouble with your heart? Get it removed, she thinks. Then you'll have no more problems.
— Margaret Atwood
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
— John Lennon
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
— George Bernard Shaw
Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.
— John Newton
You think you're being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever told you about the time I drank eight vodka martinis, took all my clothes off in front of a film crew and then broke my manager's nose?
— Elton John