“I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.”
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“As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.”
“I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.”
“I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.”
“Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.”
“That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”
“Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.”
“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.”
“But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.”
“I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.”
“Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.”
“I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.”
“Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.”
“I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.”
“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”
“The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.”
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
“I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.”
“I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.”
“What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.”
“Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.”
“I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.”
“Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.”
“Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.”