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Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games. -- Billy Evans
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. -- Warren Spahn
It's upsetting to be a man in our society. -- David Mamet
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. -- Kenny Rogers
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. -- Joan D. Vinge
Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me. -- Mario Cantone
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone. -- Richard Engel
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. -- David Suzuki
I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you. -- Jon Stewart
There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. -- Craig Stevens
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. -- Seth
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. -- Shia LaBeouf
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time. -- Lorene Scafaria
It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie. -- Sophie Turner
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it. -- Corbin Bleu
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait. -- Otto Frank
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status. -- Edmund Phelps
Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny. -- Roz Chast
The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page. -- Shay Mitchell
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. -- Ed Wood
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. -- Miroslav Vitous
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood. -- Tyne Daly
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so. -- Geoff Mulgan
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. -- Martha Beck
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen. -- Daniel Radcliffe
I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form. -- Yuvraj Singh
I think I am upsetting the coach. -- Yao Ming
Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas. -- John Green
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! -- Mason Cooley
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. -- Nikita Khrushchev
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. -- Ted Nugent
If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo. -- Seth Godin
Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans. -- Jonny Lee Miller
Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people. -- Craig Ferguson
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. -- Fred Wilson
I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach. -- Clive Owen
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... -- Barbara Pym
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. -- Seth
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. -- David Harvey
A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting. -- Jens Spahn
If Sasha's threatened, Astrid's upset. If Astrid's upset, I'm going to kill whatever's upsetting her until she's happy again. (Zarek) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting. -- Carolyn Chute
I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous? -- Julian Lennon
I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste. -- Geri Halliwell
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. -- John Ruskin
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you? -- Ian Mckellen
Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches. -- Rita Rudner
First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. -- Jenji Kohan
Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers. -- Laura Schlessinger
Powerful brands in the future will instead carefully choose who'd they'd love to be friends with - and who they'd be comfortable upsetting. -- Martin Lindstrom
Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink. -- Paul Theroux
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day. -- James Purefoy
I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow. -- Andrew Dominik
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. -- John Green
Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. -- Oswald Chambers
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking. -- Derek Landy
Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them. -- Natalie Dormer
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it. -- Francois Rabelais
What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven. -- Julie Burchill
For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor. -- Gillian Jacobs
It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things. -- Joanne Woodward
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future. -- Matt Drudge
In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed. -- Rick Smolan
Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting. -- Stephen King
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there. -- Grant Morrison
It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town. -- Christina Stead
If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing. -- Michael Isikoff
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come. -- Peter Riegert
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people. -- Nicholson Baker
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail. -- George Sand
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable." -- Ken Keyes Jr.
The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar. -- Lionel Shriver
I find it deeply upsetting when I see justice not being served. How do we as human beings deal with the unknown? The West Memphis Three trial is a joke on so many different levels. -- Atom Egoyan
It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box. -- Arthur Smith
I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill. -- Fred Wilson

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