Willie Nelson: Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories,...

Quote	Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. Copy
Author	Willie Nelson
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Quote: The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
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Alain de Botton
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The largest part of...

Quote: Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
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Stephen Graham Jones
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Sad

Making people laugh is...

Quote: Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.
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George Jones
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Roy Acuff was a...

Quote: 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.
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Quote: I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Olivia Holt
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Quote: It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
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Ann Demeulemeester
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Quote: The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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Francesca Annis
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Quote: Whenever I'm sad, I just put on 'SpongeBob' and I cheer up.
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Richard Harmon
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Quote: I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
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Marlee Matlin
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Quote: It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
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James Franco
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Quote: If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.
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Azzedine Alaia
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Quote: I've always had a hard time just being angry or just being really sad - the bigger emotions.
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Briga Heelan
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Quote: I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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Sally Field
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Quote: Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
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Leandra Medine
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Quote: It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
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Jake Roberts
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Quote: People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. It's gonna be a sad day when they don't.
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Schoolboy Q
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Quote: What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
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Beth Henley
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Quote: Sometimes I was sad, sometimes happy. Just on and off. Always I felt welcome. It's just, you know, sometimes as a human being, you cannot always be happy. You do good things, you do bad things, people talk.
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Caster Semenya
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Quote: Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?
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George III
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Quote: I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
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Anthony Doerr
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Quote: Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
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Nick Hornby
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Quote: Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
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Bill Toomey
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Quote: I had sadness for breakfast.
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Andy Milonakis
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Quote: Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
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Phillips Brooks
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Quote: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Khalil Gibran
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Quote: I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.
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Mackenzie Foy
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Quote: The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
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Joan Collins
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Quote: If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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Tariq Ramadan
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Quote: The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
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Author:
Gene Simmons
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The sad thing is...

Quote: Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
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