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I basically wanted to use the experiences I've gone through, the struggles of my childhood and kind of use the character that I was trying to create as an outlet to express the darker feelings that I was feeling. The more sad emotions that I was feeling.

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

Growing up and being bullied, it's not a sad story for me. It's defined me and what made me so strong.

It makes me sad that if I have children and if I have a daughter and a son he is going to make so much more money if they both want to play sport.

Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

But I have the most incredible support system in the world. They let me have those times when I just want to cry. But I give myself a deadline and say, today's my sad day but tomorrow when the sun comes up it's done.

I credit a lot of learning to love myself to my faith, my family and my friends. Everyone needs someone you can look to for constant support, who you never have to impress, to share your happy and sad days.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

A sad truth I've learned is that I watch a lot less live comedy than I did before it became my job.

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

If I look forward to a day when I'm just going to play tennis, I'm kinda sad.

It's a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Sad songs are what move people.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

Academics who take themselves really seriously sometimes make me laugh. But sometimes they make me sad.

I have a secret I am going to die. It's very sad but I have known about it for a while. You see, I have a condition; it's called ageing.

Ageing is an odd thing, we all have to do it if we're lucky! So why do we often feel shame, regret or sadness about passing through one window of time, when that is exactly what is meant to happen?