“I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.”
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“I have some anger issues.”
“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”
“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.”
“Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.”
“Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.”
“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.”
“We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.”
“I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.”
“I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.”
“Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.”
“Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.”
“My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.”
“Anger is a good motivator.”
“And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.”
“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”
“I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.”
“I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.”
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.”
“He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.”
“I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.”
“On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.”
“Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.”