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What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
Alanis Morissette on anger

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VI on anger

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills on anger

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
Alan Alda on anger

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams on anger

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
Jane Goodall on anger

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on anger

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior on anger

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
Christina Aguilera on anger

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides on anger

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Pete Townshend on anger

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
John F. Kerry on anger

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus on anger

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales on anger

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Kevin Bacon on anger

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck on anger

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers on anger

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Sarah Bernhardt on anger

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
Francis Quarles on anger

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
Diane Kruger on anger