“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
Source: On Leadership
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“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”
John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010) Polish politician, president of Poland
Spieprzaj, dziadu <br class="br">During the 2002 campaign to a tramp (4 November 2002). More details can be found in the (Polish) Wikipedia article http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spieprzaj_dziadu or http://miasta.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,34891,1104747.html (in Polish).
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Variant: Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.”
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Titus to Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Lunatic Cafe (1996)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.
Source: Love, Rosie
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"God the psycho" (2 February 2008) http://youtube.com/watch?v=G5JtxrR6msg <br class="br">2008
“I've pissed higher than the tallest building in Utah.”
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
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