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• While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, President, Literature

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• By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

  Alan Grayson

  Men, Blood, Talking

  "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

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• I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

  Utah Phillips

  Giving Up, Gun, Knives

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Past, Names, Giving

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• When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Moral, Wonder

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• Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Black, Therapists, Anxious

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• In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

  Paul Ekman

  Hurt, Care, May

  Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen (2003). “Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues”, p.79, ISHK

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• Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Hands, Years

  "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession".

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• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

  Sara Gruen

  Morning, Giving Up, Sleep

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• Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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• It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Being Polite

  "Women in the World Summit 2012" by Marcia G. Yerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then reading about the history and evolution of Gods. There were many different Gods: the God of war, the God of peace, the God of love, which was more like the people that invented them. They behaved, they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created floods when they didn't like the way things are going. This didn't come through as superior intelligence.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Reading, Sacrifice

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• When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

  Indra Nooyi

  Emotional, Negative, Assuming

  "The best advice I ever got". Fortune Interview, archive.fortune.com. 2008.

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• Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Awful

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.122, Anchor

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• If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick.

  Rich Little

  Needs, Tables, Spirit

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• The proud man hath no God; the envious
  man hath no neighbor; the angry man
  hath not himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.18

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• Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

  Robert McKee

  Creativity, Differences, Achievement

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• Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Promise

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• Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Failing, Crosses

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• When I’m working 16-hour days and I can’t work out, I get angry very easily. It’s because I’m missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.

  Heather Morris

  Exercise, Work Out, Missing

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, Curves, People

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

  Clare Short

  War, Hype, Suffering

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• I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bird

  Maria Shriver Graduation Speech - Video & Transcript, gradspeeches.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Don't spend another minute being angry about yesterday, free him, and you free yourself.

  Larry Gelwix

  Yesterday, Free Yourself, Minutes

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