sad

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘sad’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Football is a sad game.” -George Best

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  • “‘Vegas’ was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I’m still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I’ll always be sad about that.” -Josh Duhamel

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  • “I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut – or get angry from the gut.” -Andy Kaufman

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  • “It’s sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we’re shocked when we get good service.” -Neil Cavuto

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  • “It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.” -Keri Russell

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  • “It’s sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.” -Joss Stone

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  • “But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs

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  • “Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.” -Josh Lucas

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  • “My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don’t even know about, which is really sad.” -Amber Tamblyn

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  • “The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you’re in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.” -Andre Rieu

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  • “Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I’ve never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.” -Tracey Gold

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  • “I am co-writing a screenplay now and I’m working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don’t really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.” -Kerry Washington

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  • “Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.” -Matthew Arnold

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  • “What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.” -Boy George

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  • “But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they’ve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it’s come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It’s here.” -Patty Hearst

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  • “President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, ‘I know you’re there, pick up, pick up.” -Craig Kilborn

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  • “Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it’s finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it’ll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y’know, always come with just a little sadness.” -Evander Holyfield

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  • “I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.” -Craig Charles

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  • “I’ve never met a woman who thinks they’ve got a good enough figure – however perfect they look – which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they’re entirely internal.” -L’Wren Scott

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  • “So far, at least, I haven’t found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.” -Todd Solondz

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  • “The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.” -Jeremy Irons

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  • “And for some reason, when I’m sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that’s actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.” -Glen Hansard

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  • “I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.” -Ben Stiller

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  • “Life can be challenging and sad… but music is the easy part.” -St. Vincent

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  • “It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.” -Winona Ryder

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  • “You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they’re so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without…

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  • “Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that’s sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.” -Dylan McDermott

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  • “We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.” -Christo

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  • “There’s all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it’s a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.” -Irvine Welsh

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  • “You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don’t sit around and sing it anymore unless you’re performing. That’s kind of sad.” -Rick Danko

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  • “Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you’re a poor woman and you are infertile, it’s like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.” -Jennifer Weiner

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  • “I’m sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.” -Christine Baranski

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  • “I think a lot of people think that my parents’ deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that’s not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.” -Shelby Lynne

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  • “I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn’t have time to play.” -Li Na

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  • “It’s a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late ’70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn’t feel the need to question the other person’s character.” -Eric Holder

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  • “It’s sad when you can’t make everyone happy, though. It’s impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, ‘Maybe I can do it,’ but you know you can’t. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and…

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  • “It’s so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.” -Sylvia Browne

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  • “It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.” -James Franco

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  • “To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.” -Emma Goldman

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  • “What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don’t believe it will change. And I just want to say: ‘It does! High school ends and it’s over.’ I will tell anyone that it’s OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it…

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  • “Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.” -Helen Clark

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  • “Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.” -Arthur Wellesley

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  • “Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.” -Ann Richards

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  • “With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it’s sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It’s really not true.” -Tina Yothers

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  • “I like to write sad songs. They’re much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don’t want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn’t they want that positive, uptempo thing.” -Alan Jackson

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  • “Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.” -Jay Inslee

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  • “Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin’ him problems.” -Merle Haggard

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  • “I’m incredibly sad that my mother’s not here to see my kids and that my kids don’t get to know her. And she didn’t meet my husband. That’s one of the hardest things. I don’t even know how to put that into words.” -Stella McCartney

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  • “I think the thing’s that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven’t come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50’s when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn’t win the Tony Award.” -Andrew Lloyd Webber

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  • “Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.” -Germaine Greer

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  • “I’m proud of my invention, but I’m sad that it is used by terrorists.” -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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  • “Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.” -Ibrahim Babangida

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  • “The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.” -James Baldwin

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  • “So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it’s really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.” -Hilary Duff

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  • “It’s very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It’s just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.” -Taylor Lautner

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  • “However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.” -Robert Casey

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  • “The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.” -Gloria Estefan

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  • “Now I’ll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn’t that a sad confession? But it’s like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.” -Karen Russell

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  • “Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it’s a little bit sad, right?” -Rachel Stevens

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  • “I’m a sucker for sad disco pop.” -Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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  • “It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.” -Ricki Lake

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  • “You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the ‘Others.’” -Mira Nair

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  • “There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.” -Charles Mackay

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  • “It’s very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.” -Corazon Aquino

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  • “My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more.…

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  • “Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.” -Sara Teasdale

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  • “People are so codified – it’s sad.” -Jean Paul Gaultier

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  • “I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.” -Moon Unit Zappa

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  • “It’s sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it’s real funny.” -Seth Green

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  • “The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.” -Lionel Messi

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  • “I’m not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I’m really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.” -Roland Joffe

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  • “I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.” -Edie Falco

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  • “I’ve always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.” -Sherilyn Fenn

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  • “Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad.” -Christiane Amanpour

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  • “‘The Taxi Ride,’ from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I’m consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that’s a sad song.” -Jane Siberry

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  • “We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it’s a sad story, as if we didn’t know it’s a sad story. There isn’t a single cool newsreader.” -Tom Baker

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  • “And it’s sad because it’s like a surprise to people – almost an anomaly – when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That’s the last thing people think about.” -Vanessa Carlton

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  • “Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won’t be there as much. I can’t do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I’m something conscious of, but I’m not sad about it. It’s fine.” -Rory McIlroy

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  • “Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.” -Brittany Snow

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  • “Atari is a very sad story.” -Steve Wozniak

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  • “In Mississippi, you don’t admit that you’re gay. It’s just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.” -Lance Bass

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  • “If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.” -Nana Mouskouri

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  • “Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I’m totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia’s name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results…

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  • “In film, you can have sad endings.” -Anna Torv

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  • “I’m a person who likes these sort of movies… sad but moving ‘art movies’ that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.” -Zach Braff

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  • “It’s incredible that they censor films. It’s sad.” -Dario Argento

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  • “People say, oh it’s a shame, you’re not nostalgic about the ’60s. Well actually, it’s quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn’t it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?” -Robert Wyatt

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  • “I’m so grounded, it’s sad.” -Patti LaBelle

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  • “I’m sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don’t regret any of it.” -Marc Maron

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  • “When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing – and listen to her recordings – it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn’t had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of…

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  • “If I don’t make it, I’ll be very sad that there are things I didn’t do, but I’m happy that I’ve done what I have.” -Stephen Jay Gould

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  • “51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I’m afraid I could never be that cool in real life!” -Emily Mortimer

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  • “You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.” -Steve Lacy

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  • “I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts… but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.” -Bai Ling

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  • “At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven’t been world No. 1 before.” -Yani Tseng

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  • “Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.” -Donna Tartt

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  • “I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed ‘Countdown in Leeds,’ which was scary. It was sad as he’d been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.” -Carol Vorderman

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  • “Just because I’m talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn’t mean that I’m sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.” -Lucinda Williams

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  • “I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.” -Sally Field

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  • “You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.” -Arne Jacobsen

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  • “I’ve traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it’s a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they’re tiny. They’re tiny not only in size but also in scope.” -Jim Lehrer

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  • “I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you’re not alone in the world.” -Natalie Imbruglia

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  • “With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you’re in the public eye, it’s just amplified, that’s all.” -Margot Kidder

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  • “The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.” -Sergio Aragones

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  • “It’s always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.” -Lee Child

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  • “The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered… This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.” -Ariel Sharon

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  • “Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment.” -Patrick Stewart

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  • “I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.” -David Schwimmer

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  • “If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.” -John James Audubon

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  • “I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.” -Kevin Spacey

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  • “You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.” -Heston Blumenthal

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  • “I was in a bar and I said to a friend, ‘You know, we’ve become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, ‘Isn’t it sad?’” -George Clooney

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  • “I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.” -Adam Levine

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  • “Wearing a tuxedo isn’t as simple as it sounds. I’ve been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It’s surprisingly easy to go off the rails.” -Paul Feig

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  • “In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They’re low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why – these guys…

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  • “It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.” -Ralph Steadman

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  • “Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.” -Alexander Payne

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  • “I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That’s why they aren’t sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It’s such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of…

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  • “I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.” -Grace Slick

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  • “Dwight is a sad clown. You’ve seen those paintings of sad clown.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It’s sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.” -Jamie Foxx

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  • “I’ve never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn’t choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.” -Juliette Binoche

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  • “You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something – it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.” -Nick Rhodes

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  • “I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.” -Larry Hagman

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  • “Women get the attention when we get into the men’s arena, and that’s sad.” -Billie Jean King

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  • “You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I’m a traitor to my country because I don’t have a sporting bone in my body.” -Geoffrey Rush

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  • “I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.” -Lionel Blue

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  • “I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.” -Zoe Saldana

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  • “My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.” -Alvin Ailey

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  • “My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.” -Dan Savage

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  • “A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.” -Queen Victoria

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  • “I do not take steroids. I never have. It’s sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don’t do that. That’s not me. I wouldn’t feel like a human being.” -Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  • “I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That’s sad.” -Shawn Johnson

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  • “I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That’s a beautiful gift from God. If people don’t want to see that anymore then I won’t be in anymore movies.” -Debra Winger

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  • “Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.” -Rowan Atkinson

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  • “I’ve met so many fans of daytime television who’ve watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they’ve known the characters their whole lives. It’s sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don’t want that to happen to the ‘Days’ fans.” -Alison Sweeney

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  • “It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.” -Major R. Owens

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  • “The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.” -Logan P. Smith

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  • “The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.” -Shaquille O’Neal

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  • “For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really…

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  • “With my schedule being so crazy, I can’t call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that’s definitely sad.” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’” -Jennifer Sky

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  • “It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.” -Theodore Parker

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  • “Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.” -Bob Woodward

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  • “Of course it’s true: the public want to see young people – young people are the people who go to the cinema. It’s a sad fact of life, but you’ve got to accept it and not whine about it.” -Joan Collins

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  • “I’m not sad at all about turning 40.” -Halle Berry

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  • “Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.” -Joan Allen

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  • “You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.” -Shahrukh Khan

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  • “It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.” -John Ciardi

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  • “When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the…

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  • “No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.” -Julie Burchill

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  • “As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you’re interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.” -Charlie Kaufman

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  • “My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.” -Shirley Manson

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  • “We’re sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.” -Nancy Pelosi

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  • “Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.” -Peter Steele

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  • “‘I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt…

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  • “I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.” -Margaret Cho

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  • “You can’t have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front – or a happy without a sad.” -Harlan Coben

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  • “At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.” -Earl Blumenauer

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  • “All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That’s kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.” -Sammy Hagar

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  • “The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” -Jean Baudrillard

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  • “The first series I wrote, ‘L.A. Candy,’ was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to…

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  • “It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.” -Maria Mitchell

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  • “What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can’t leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.” -Diane Kruger

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  • “I would love to be married. But it’s not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no…

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  • “As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World…

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  • “As a songwriter I hate this whole, ‘If it’s a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.’ And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I’m an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I’ll get something off my chest.” -Nate…

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  • “I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we’re trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.” -Mary J. Blige

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  • “I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.” -Bryan Adams

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  • “The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.” -Eliot Spitzer

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  • “It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “I’ve got to be high class… Which is sad, because I like bars.” -Daniel Craig

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  • “For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.” -Anna Quindlen

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  • “The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey

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  • “What’s really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don’t even really understand that equality hasn’t happened with the pay force.” -Bell Hooks

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  • “There’s never been a culture that wasn’t obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “But I’m not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.” -Edward Furlong

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  • “I didn’t know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don’t know their mothers had it that’s the sad thing about depression. You know, you don’t function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.” -Marie Osmond

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