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When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled. -- Alexander McCall Smith
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
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. -- Taylor Swift
The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It's another level of satisfaction - another level of sadness. -- David Nalbandian
I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has. -- Sarah McLachlan
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun. -- Johann Lamont
The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it. -- Marlo Thomas
Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. -- Martha Beck
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. -- Walter Anderson
When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. -- James Belushi
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. -- George W. Bush
Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life. -- Claire Cook
....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. -- Jodee Blanco
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains. -- Yasmin Mogahed
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love. -- Maira Kalman
He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough. -- Adam P. Knave
Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from. -- Felipe Perez Roque

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