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People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that's sad.

My kids live in a different environment than I did as a child. They've got privileges I didn't have as a child, but they have disadvantages. They don't see their mum as much. They see the threats that one gets. They live in a house where they've got panic buttons, and I've had to teach them about safety.

When I watched 'Marley and Me' I thought it was sad but also a bit mad - that level of emotion for a dog?

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I'm interested in everything about people. Not just, 'what do you do for a living?' but I want to know about their fears and sadnesses and listen to their regrets, both sides of it, the happy and the sad.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

While continuing to speak out and work against those laws that sanction homosexuality, we also shall continue to seek help and change for homosexuals themselves, whose sad and sick values belie the word 'gay' which they pathetically use to cover their unhappy lives.

It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to... thrust their way of life on a society.

History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of witch who was out for her own personal gain and crusading to do away with the homosexuals.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

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.

Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

It could be a little bit sad as a young girl to sit there and wait in front of the telephone that would never ring.