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		I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Cleese
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Capaldi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristen Schaal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aristophanes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fiorello LaGuardia
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Waters
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edmund Spenser
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Broad
			
			
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		Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Janet Jackson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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				The Birthday Party
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sally Mann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlotte Kasl
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Abani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neale Donald Walsch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Be hald, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are to decline your nectared wine,
But all you must drink life's gall.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Wheeler Wilcox
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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