Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!

Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk.

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

I'm not looking to shock anyone.

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

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

When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.

People will love or hate 'Satta' and 'Stumped.' But they cannot ignore them.

I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

I had some people say to me, you don't - you wouldn't give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.