Sorry Quotes - Page 26

• I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  People, Ministry, Notes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists.

  Zeena Parkins

  Practice, Ideas, Rooms

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't have song rights for the first video because I didn't know that it was going to do what it did. So for the second video, I decided better safe than sorry. It is a really gray area as to whether or not you even need song rights to make a video like that.

  Judson Laipply

  Song, Rights, Safe

  "Beat goes on for YouTube's 'Evolution of Dance' star". Interview with Ryan Osborn and Allison Berger, www.today.com. January 12, 2009.

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• People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live, or real estate agents, "You can't afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. Why don't you just put some of your books in storage?" And I always say the same thing: "What if I told you I had four children? Would you say, 'You just can't afford to house four children. Why don't you just put two of them in storage?'" That's how I feel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Real, Book

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.

  Shelby Harris

  Thinking, Different, Would Be

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  Antonio Damasio

  Emotional, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, People, Get Better

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Nobody wants to hear about process. They want to hear about results. They want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. And so often in our communication, we will explain why - sorry, we will explain how but not why.

  Frank Luntz

  Communication, Want, Inspired

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Laughing, Looks, Credit

  "Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

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• I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

  Beth Revis

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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• I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

  Stephen Keshi

  Thinking, Games, People

  Source: host00.soccerladuma.net

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• For the other people, the babies, the young ones, I did not order them to be killed. For Son Sen and his family, yes. I feel sorry for that. That was a mistake that occurred when we put our plan into practice. I feel sorry.

  Pol Pot

  Baby, Mistake, Son

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Week, Easy

  "Elizabeth Gilbert: An Adventurer Travels Back In Time". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. January 16, 2014.

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• I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.

  Karen Abbott

  Mother, Writing, Rose

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

  Ian MacKaye

  Clear, Feels

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian judges. The theory being that they're going to be incapable of a disinterested judgment on matters that involve their own identity groups. And it came up famously for Constance Baker Motley who was one of the first African American federal judges in a case involving sex discrimination.

  Deborah Rhode

  Sex, Gay, Color

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• Now on Facebook I have all these 'friends' who used to bully me, and they're like, 'We're so proud! We love you!' They come to shows and want to take a picture, and they're like, 'Don't you remember us?' And I'm like, 'I'm sorry, I don't.' And I feel bad, but I feel good.

  Margaret Cho

  Love You, Bully, Feel Good

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• The only thing I can say in comparison is when I play comedy characters; I definitely put empathy in right up at the forefront. I think if you believe in someone because you not necessarily feel sorry for them, but you can see how they are the way they are and you can laugh with them, but rather than laugh at them, you are on their side and I think it's

  Rhys Darby

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• For years now, the fake European 'left' is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd.

  Andre Vltchek

  Government, Years, Fake

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

  Brené Brown

  Hard Times, Who I Am, Two

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute . I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. "Well, what words are part of my own community, even if I'm monolingual, that I'm not allowing myself to use in a public sphere?"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Community, Kitchen, Cinnamon

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

  Val Kilmer

  Gratitude, Enough, Employers

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."

  Julie Bowen

  Hate, Home, Kids

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• [Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was the beginning of our relationship, and I didn't know anyone in fashion. And he passed out at the table. I'm like, "I'm so sorry, we're jet-lagged." You don't know the number of times I've had to say that. I always flat-out lie that he's jet-lagged, even if we've been home for months.

  Kim Kardashian

  Fashion, Lying, Home

  "Icons: In Bed with Kim and Kanye" by Carine Roitfeld, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

  Ryan Lochte

  Should Have, Responsible, Has Beens

  "Olympian Ryan Lochte apologizes for 'behavior,' sticks to gunpoint claim". www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2016.

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