Upset Quotes - Page 25

• We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Trying, Weakness

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• ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

  Walter Mosley

  Song, Book, Love You

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• I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

  Louise Erdrich

  Women, Views, Hands

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• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Kind, Wonder

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• Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

  George Hamilton

  Honesty, Needs, Want

  "George Hamilton lends advice on women" by Oli Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. November 28, 2009.

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• The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

  Nicholson Baker

  People, Want, Novel

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• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, Two, Students

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• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Long, People

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• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

  Robert Cormier

  Boys, Years, Adults

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

  Kristin Davis

  Thinking, People, Feminist

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

  Joshua Bell

  Halls, Music Hall, Ifs

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• I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

  Gerard Butler

  Looks, Stories, Amazed

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• If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

  Dianna Agron

  Important, Machines, Might

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it.

  Lauren Shuler Donner

  Book, Way, Sticks

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• I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

  Emma Caulfield

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?

  Mario Cantone

  Mother, Song, Gay

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• I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

  Neve Campbell

  Hands, People, Watches

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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

  Daisy Donovan

  Children, Clever, Not Good Enough

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• Don't get upset girl, that's how it goes. I don't love you hoes, I'm out the door.

  Snoop Dogg

  Girl, Love You, Doors

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• If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Office

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• I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

  Colin Firth

  Crazy, People, Needs

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• You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

  Paul Gascoigne

  People, Problem, Drink

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

  Dree Hemingway

  Dream, Sight, Perfect

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• I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

  Dwight Howard

  Growing Up, Children, Father

  "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

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