Upset Quotes - Page 11

• I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

  Regis Philbin

  Struggle, Years, Going For It

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• I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

  Pink

  Military, Class, Luxury

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• You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

  Roman Polanski

  War, People, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Transition, Way, Chapters

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2010.

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• I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Gun, Thinking, Cities

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• I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Moving, Years, Two

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  Pat Robertson

  Faith, Christian, Rights

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• Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Men, Design

  Mitt Romney's commencement address on gay marriage and religion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, People, Trying

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• Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

  Mark Russell

  Running, Long, People

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• You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Mean Girls, Amanda, About Yourself

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• I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

  Richard Simmons

  Airports, Tanks, Legs

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• One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

  Paul Simon

  Criticism, Exception, Agree

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• I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Assault Weapons, People, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

  Ben Stein

  Winning, Trying, Would Be

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  America, Friendly, Deals

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

  David Suzuki

  Carbon Cycle, Water, Earth

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• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

  Dylan Thomas

  Vanity, Ordinary, Ease

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Men

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• What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Support, Conscious, Conversation

  "Iyanla Vanzant Covers ESSENCE Magazine, Shares 10 Ways To ‘Claim Your Joy’ This Year 180". ESSENCE Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs.

  Johnny Weir

  Running, Kids, Names

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• I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Ideas, People

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Reform

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• It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

  Fred Wilson

  Millionaire

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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Butterfly, Golf, Links

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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