Angry Quotes - Page 31

• If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

  Ani DiFranco

  Stupid, Care, Unfair

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• I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Rap, People

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• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  Naomi Campbell

  Mean, Feelings, Passionate

  "Naomi Campbell Dodges ‘Angry Black Woman’ Label Despite Reporter’s Fearless Attempt" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

  Naomi Campbell

  Black, Black Women

  "Naomi Campbell Dodges ‘Angry Black Woman’ Label Despite Reporter’s Fearless Attempt" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

  Neil Peart

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• I don't want to be the angry guy.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Guy, Want

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• My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

  Fiona Apple

  Who I Am, Feelings, Feeling Sad

  "Fiona Apple is NOT the next Alanis, thank you". ELLE, October 1996.

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• The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Thinking, People

  "This much I know" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.

  John Coltrane

  Play, Trying, Sound

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• Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Brain, Essentials, Details

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lonely, Drama, Acceptance

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• I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

  Andy Richter

  Watches, Four Seasons, Three

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, tv.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.

  Dennis Merzel

  Fall, Frustrated, Trying

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (2001). “24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana”, Journey Editions

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• To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

  Michael Owen

  Performing, Streaks, Ifs

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• Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What
  about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Thinking, Years

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• When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.

  Gene Hill

  Loyalty, Dog, Powerful

  Steve Smith, Gene Hill (1999). “Just Mutts: A Tribute to the Rogues of Dogdom”, p.93, Willow Creek Press

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• These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, People

  "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow".

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• One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Believe, Opposites, Suffering

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• Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

  Rumi

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

  Rita Rudner

  Things In Life, Two, Six Months

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

  Tom Morello

  Angel, Singers

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• In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

  Jonas Mekas

  Flower, Color, Smell

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Character, Laughing, Tears

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• No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Thinking, People, Tests

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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