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Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.
Dylan Moran / Comedian
Announcing
Aunt
Fun
Hands
Ireland
Not Talking
Rotten
Tragic
Me People Fun
Naturally
Bouncing
Panel
Reminds
Structured
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Photographer
Men
Animal
Children
Eating
Our World
Tragic
Adult
Men World Will
Animals
Wild
Domestic
Men World Children
Make Up
Planet
Wild Animals
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This thing has been studied to death by Republicans and Democrats: several committees, including in Congress, that have all said, 'Yes, of course what happened was tragic, but Secretary Clinton was not in any way at fault,' and what you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.
Julian Castro / Former Mayor Of San Antonio
Clinton
Committees
Secretary
Tragic
Witch
Democrats
Republicans
Hunt
Republicans And Democrats
Secretary Clinton
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The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley / Writer
Civilization
Manners
News Media
Tragic
Time History Today
Opposite
Calculate
Quick
Safest
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The characters I've played that I like the most are people that have a lot of obstacles. They have a lot of bad things going on. They're seeking to do something good amidst all the detritus around them, and they're aware of how badly they've screwed it up. That kind of self-awareness is tragic.
Paul Sparks /
Bad Things
Obstacles
Seeking
Tragic
Amidst
Good Bad People
Screwed
Something Good
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Wisdom
Anticipate
Children
Elders
Fate
Lonely
Native
Plight
Promise
Silence
Speak
Tongue
Tragic
Two Weeks
Somewhere
Weeks
Indeed
Pass
Roughly
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After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.
Frankie Grande /
Devastation
Handle
Loss
Manchester
Powerless
Tools
Tragic
Unsafe
Dark Place
Senseless
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.
Roseanne Barr / Actress
Alone
Banner
Fright
Singing
Stage
Stage Fright
Stars
Stuff
Tragic
Accident
Anymore
Badly
Blown
Star
Full
Sang
Sing
Spangled
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At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.
Soledad O'brien / Broadcaster
African American
Harvard
Tragic
Life God World
Bridge
Herself
Invariably
Oh My God
Studies
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor / Actress
Positive
Bad Things
Little Bit
One Day
Thinker
Tragic
Positive Life Myself
Life Myself Always
All My Life
Event
Perhaps
Survive
Telling
To Survive
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
Robert Smith / Musician
Band
First Time
Play
Thinking
Together
Tragic
Life Time Together
Develop
Older
Spend
Inevitably
Outside
Socialize
Tend
Unit
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It's easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Consecutive
Houston
Tragic
Whitney
Life Time Death
Chart
Life Death Time
Talented
Holds
World Record
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I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.
Vijay Sethupathi /
Appreciation
Hilarious
Active
Confusing
Numbing
Responding
Tragic
Below
Comments
Feed
Extraordinarily
Facebook
Item
Meme
React
Thanking
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Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
War
Allies
Believe
Difficult Times
Geopolitical
Russia
Thinking
Tragic
Bringing
Believe I Believe Together
Component
Conflicts
Wars
First World
Together World Believe
Indeed
Interests
Objectively
World Wars
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I'll never believe I'm any older than 18. I get angry when my body can't do what an 18-year-old's does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it's quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty.
Anthony Newley / Actor
Angry
Consolation
Getting Older
Mobility
Sight
Tragic
Unkind
Physically
Mirror
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The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and just strikes to the heart of our country. Here's the youngest president ever, full of hope and promise, and he made government service seem like it was dignified.
Richard Belzer / Stand-Up Comedian
Assassination
Fascinating
Promise
Royalty
Strikes
Tragic
Dignified
Youngest
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When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.
James Fenton / Poet
Academic
May
Notes
Punctuation
Purpose
Song
Speech
Study
Tragic
Generally
Lyric
Page
Performed
Purposes
Reference
Require
Shakespeare
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Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'
Nicholas Jarecki / Film Director
Kings
Movies
Action
Cathartic
Classic
Downfall
Errors
Indulge
Indulge In
Lifestyle
Thank God
Tragic
Wealthy
Thing
Why
Interested
Part
Public
Error
Say
Him
Leads
Shakespeare
Thank
Where
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The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to bring the audience a good distance before that. Part of that is allowing comic moments to occur. I had been afraid of that - that once the audience started laughing in the play, they would never stop.
Colm Toibin / Novelist
Allowing
Comic
Distance
Next Time
Tragic
Time Trust Good
Trust Time Good
Never Stop
Occur
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
Derek Walcott / Poet
Difficulty
Myth
Tragic
Expresses
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At any given moment, we each face a barrage of obligations, often disparate and distinct from what we thought would happen when we woke up. From the tragic to the common to the extraordinary, life refuses to be divvied up into careful slices of time. No technology can manage to overcome the realities of reality.
Stacey Abrams /
Technology
Careful
Common
Extraordinary
Given
Manage
Tragic
Life Time Technology
Life Time Moment
Overcome
Any Given Moment
Disparate
Happen
Moment
Obligations
Realities
Refuses
Woke
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In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.
Alice Munro / Author
Happy
Changed
Enjoyed
Heroines
Ideas
Tolerate
Tragic
Unhappy
Anyway
Did
Began
Days
Read
Early
Early Days
Ending
Happy Ending
Heights
Important Thing
Later
Place
Wuthering
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Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.
Michael Redhill / Poet
Calculating
Core
Might
Pragmatic
Save The World
Smart
Tragic
Child
Younger
Batman
Demons
Package
Save
Struggling
Wondered
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At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.
Renee Fleming / Consultant
Big Mistake
Calculated Risk
Careers
Decades
Happens
Mistake
One Time
People
Risk
Shame
Stage
Tragic
Calculated
Career
Time Happens Always
Gotten
Hugely
Leads
Saying
Yes
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We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.
Ricky Martin / Musician
Self Esteem
Teens
Tragic
Struggling
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We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years.
Amy Klobuchar / United States Senator
Accidents
Dying
Phenomenon
Tragic
Look People New
Crashes
Exponentially
Increased
Last Few Years
Message
Text
Young People
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I have mixed feelings about Jerusalem. It is fascinating, it is beautiful, it is tragic, and it is extremely attractive to all kinds of fanatics or redeemers, world reformers, self-appointed prophets or messiahs. I find this fascinating, but I don't think I would like to live in the middle of this. I need my distance.
Amos Oz / Writer
Attractive
Distance
Fanatics
Fascinating
Feelings
Jerusalem
Mixed Feelings
Tragic
Beautiful World Live
Extremely
Mixed
Prophets
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I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.
Etgar Keret / Writer
Fun
Grateful
Homework
Pages
Relieved
Saved
Stolen
Tragic
Writing
Life Me Fun
Life Me People
Acted
Laptop
Thief
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Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
James Belushi / Actor
Accidents
Compassion
Flesh
Friendly
Loss
Rip
Tragic
Everywhere
Bomb
Reminds
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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Defeat
Engaging
Fool
Tragic
Trusted
Confront
Contain
Errand
Motivations
We Cannot
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Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
Susan Vreeland / Author
Peace
Commitment
Community
Compassion
Isolated
Literature
Tragic
Understanding
Violence
Then
Forms
Civil
Connection
Without
Cruel
Domestic
Human
Individuals
Turn
Where
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I will never forget what happened on August 14, 2003. I know the exact sequence of where I was for every moment of that evening. It was a tragic day, and it's burned into my memory. Many people might remember that date, vaguely, as the date of the infamous eastern seaboard blackout that plunged all of New York City into darkness.
Chris Gethard / Actor
August
Burned
Darkness
Eastern
Evening
Infamous
Never Forget
New York City
Sequence
Tragic
Blackout
Date
Exact
Vaguely
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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
John Cleese / Actor
Friends
Jobs
Respect
Collaborators
Competitors
Decent
Exaggerating
Fun
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Thinking
Tragic
Life Family Enough
Job
Absolutely
Life Family Respect
Bring
Earn
Longer
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The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.
Pete Hoekstra / Former United States Representative
Anniversary
Confronting
Containing
Dialogue
Islam
Radical Islam
September
Tragic
Unsuccessful
Attacks
Defeating
Suffered
Strategies
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'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.
Joyce Carol Oates / Author
War
Aftermath
Children
Civil War
Consequence
Division
Exploitation
Factories
Injustice
Mills
Novel
Poor
Race
Social Injustice
Terrible
Tragic
Workers
Young Children
Accursed
Civil
Freeing
Immigrant
Slaves
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I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.
James Howard Kunstler / Author
Special
Suburbia
Tragic
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You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry Pratchett / Author
Running
Betrayal
Frightened
Hurt
Jokes
Plot
Relief
Stupid
Tragic
Weaponry
Writing
Fight People Will
Build
Around
Deaths
Fight
Happen
Letting
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My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.
Jonathan Maberry / Author
Sad
Heroic
Humans
Interfere
Pathetic
Scary
Tragic
Zombie
Funny Always People
Allow
Elastic
Metaphors
Monster
Serve
So Much Fun
Telling
Threats
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Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
Kurt Sutter / Screenwriter
Entry
Evil
Humanity
Inhumanity
Mass
Sick
Tragic
Batman
Seen
Billion
Choose
Itself
Entertained
Saw
Point
Some People
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
Vikram Patel /
Citizenship
Dignity
Healthcare
Naked
Tragic
Uncommon
Life World People
Basic
Clearly
Human Right
Illnesses
Mental
Nor
Notice
Parts
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This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
C. S. Lewis / Novelist
Kind
Taste
Tragic
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