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" Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. "
Jane Goldman
Yourself
Act
Anger
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" In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. "
Ben Carson
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Good
" I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall! "
Jane Goldman
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" There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger. "
Noam Chomsky
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Government
" I really enjoy the challenge of adapting. "
Jane Goldman
Enjoy
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Really
" I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. "
Deborah Eisenberg
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" As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger. "
John McEnroe
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Real
Anger
" You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off. "
Jim Lehrer
Anger
Phone
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" Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.' "
Lionel Sosa
Decisions
Anger
Angry
" The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. "
Chris Cleave
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Love
" Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. "
Ron Fournier
Grief
Three
Acceptance
" As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. "
Robin Gibb
Feeling
Anger
Dying
" There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up. "
Jane Goldman
Book
Someone
Always
" Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. "
Charles Simmons
Argument
First
Fool
" I don't hold a grudge of sheer anger at life because of my name. No, no, no. It's something unique and cool. It's just a part of who I am. I'm OK with that. "
Tennys Sandgren
Life
Name
Unique
" I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze. "
Christopher Plummer
Anger
You
Think
" A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger. "
Ndamukong Suh
You
Hurt
Me
" I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you. "
Amy Winehouse
Ability
Big
Fight
" It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy. "
Lucy Alibar
Hope
Fear
Legacy
" The Eyemo was heavy and could be noisy. Once, I was in an auditorium filming a speech made by Goebbels when, suddenly, it decided to emit a huge snarling sound. Goebbels froze, and hundreds of uniformed Brownshirts turned and glared at me in anger. It was not a comfortable moment. "
Douglas Slocombe
Comfortable
Anger
Me
" Anger is a good motivator. "
James Dyson
Motivator
Good
Anger
" When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward. "
Mary J. Blige
Hold
Forward
You
" Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hatred
Heart
Head
" A hungry man is an angry one. "
Buchi Emecheta
Anger
Angry
Hungry
" During his last 18 months in office, Eisenhower flew to Asia, Europe, and Latin America and deployed his war hero's popularity to seek new friends for America while trying to improve relations with Moscow. By the time Ike left office, most Americans had forgotten their anger over losing the space race to the Soviets. "
Michael Beschloss
Anger
War
Time
" When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt that social comment could lead to social change. "
Tim Pigott-Smith
Change
You
Time
" People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy. "
Mayte Garcia
People
Say
Believe
" Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. "
James Fallows
Anger
Angry
Letters
" I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. "
Dave Mustaine
Anger
Ending
Growing Up
" When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. "
Mark Twain
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" Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined. "
Tom Lantos
Government
Faith
Build