People like controversy because that's what sells.

I experienced, along with the rest of the team, what it was like to go from being a Cinderella story with a great entrepreneur in Sam Walton to being large and disliked just because you're large, and all of the negatives that went with it. So I personally don't use the word "scale" very much because when I hear that word I think of pain.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Thank you, Dubai, you were so amazing. I don't think we'll be allowed back due to my 'behaviour', but know that I love you and I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

The idea of calling out a performer for being performative is mind-numbingly redundant as an exercise. Performing is a performer's job.