I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn’t be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn’t upset people, really.
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the ‘Daily Telegraph’ with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner’s simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.
I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.
I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That’s my nature. I never want to upset anybody.
With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn’t get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
I’m a creative person, and I’m gonna be creative, so whoever’s upset because of that, that’s too bad.
There’s always someone out there being mean, but what upsets me is the spite. Why are you like that? Why are you so horrible?
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn’t have the art of beating big teams consistently.
If there’s anything that offends me, especially if it’s towards my family, I just block them. I don’t accept that. I don’t get upset because I like to focus on the positive.
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?’
You don’t want to upset the people from California. They can outvote you.
They’d have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don’t get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.
Diners are upset that restaurants aren’t honoring reservations, and a lot of restaurants help bring this on by overbooking.
No matter what I do, you’re going to be upset by something.
A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?
It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
When we were growing up, some of those Amblin films, those Spielberg movies, led to the creation of the PG-13 rating because he was pushing it so dark and he upset a lot of parents. I liked that, though.
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
I think your first relationship that you need to master is with yourself, your body, your mind, with your heart when you understand what triggers you have, what makes you upset what causes you to sort of take chances.
A big thing with the heart issue is you can’t be up in here being stressed and having a lot of anxiety, so I had to do a lot of soul searching about how, ‘Why do certain things make me upset?’ and being more honest with myself. It’s actually made my marriage awesome, it’s made my friendships better.
When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger… I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn’t like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
I’m old school, when I go on stage, I want every single person in that theatre to have the time of their life. I don’t want to upset someone on their night off when they’ve been working all week.
We are fighting tough guys to get it on whereas Canelo and GGG have been cherry-picking. They can do that with the profile they have. It’s just business. I’m not upset about it because my time will come when I walk in with one belt and walk out with four.
I see them turn around to get a second look. You hear a lot of people laugh at you. So what? I used to get upset about it, but not anymore. You know, laugh all you can.
If a person doesn’t like me or doesn’t like my game, OK, that’s how they feel. Can’t be upset with it.
I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, ‘Hey, I’m right here, I’ll walk you through this and it doesn’t make sense now but just trust me.’ That’s where faith come in – trust.
I was very upset because I did not have a fair trial to prove my loyalty to this country.
If I don’t have cereal on the bus, I’m going to be really upset.
There are times when I think, ‘Do I have the energy to be upset?’ and the answer is ‘no.’
People lie when they get upset.
I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset.
The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I’ve played I’ve twisted around in my mind until I’ve made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn’t deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it’s like to be a bad person.
I would be upset if I was on the ‘worst dressed’. It would make me think, ‘Surely I haven’t done anything that horrific – have I?’
People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
The only time I eat alone is if I’m really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it’s easier to be alone. But you can’t be too wrapped up in yourself… it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
I love 3D, and I’m very upset about the way it’s being treated and thrown away by Hollywood in this kind of horrible grab for the money with all these bad 3D movies and terrible 3D conversions.
If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I’m upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn’t expect my writers to do that.
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
To all of the artists that attend the Grammys: Stop accepting the invitation to be the upset of the year and demand that this body upholds its mission for advocacy and support of artistry as culture evolves. Demand that they change this system and truly reflect and truly acknowledge your art.
The magic of the cup is winning it, or causing an upset as far as I am concerned – but it is not so enjoyable for anyone when you are on the receiving end.
You need to mourn, you need to be upset, to give yourself time to replenish. Then you use it all as fuel to get stronger.
We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.
Any kind of horror video game where I’m the first-person player and I’m… I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I’m like, I really don’t want him to die,’ and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can’t play those games.
Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It’s just something that’s happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it.
I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.
It’s commonly said that people who’ve been ill in childhood and who’ve had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don’t look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that’s a help.
