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• It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dark, Parent, Church

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.101, Fawcett

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• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Disappointment, War, Doubt

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Scripture, Fool

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• The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

  Martin Luther

  Fool, Astronomy, Whole

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• In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Country, Couple, Mean

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• I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!

  Janet Jackson

  Believe, Moving, Sight

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• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

  Warren Farrell

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.

  Roger Federer

  Moving, Years, Stay Positive

  "Federer's mental powers keep record in sight" by Richard Jago, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2007.

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• The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Lines, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

  Michael Rooker

  Character, Skin Tone, Mad

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2014.

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• You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.

  Meryl Streep

  Cry, Disgusting

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• I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.

  Denzel Washington

  People, Not Afraid

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Men, Giving

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Party, Years, People

  Regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country, El Correo, (p. 23), April 9, 2005.

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• I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Angel, Wind

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• You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you

  Eamon

  Needs, Looks, Next

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• I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Government, Allies, Driving

  "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.

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• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Age, Population

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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• The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue?

  Friedrich Kellner

  Hate, Long, World

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• In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Believe, Reality, Clothes

  "The Pulling Report". limsk.tripod.com. 1990.

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• An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.

  Ben Gibbard

  Girlfriend, People, Important

  "The Meaning Of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

  John C. Maxwell

  Talent, Ends, Written

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• Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Girlfriend, Russia

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