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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
Amy Tan

Life, Time, Happy

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Robert Shea

Strength, Greatest, Key

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.
Michelle Bachelet

Life, Family, Nature

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
Jack Dee

Two, Same, Talent

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
Eric Stoltz

Experience, End, Happen

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
Ellen Page

Good, Enjoy, Comedy

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
Olivia Thirlby

Comedy, Trained

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun

Great, Mind, Yields

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban

Men, Rejection, Miss

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Ellen Tauscher

History, Heart, Down

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro

Life, Career, Happened

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good... I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'
Toby Jones

Good, Thinking, Give

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Helen Clark

American, President, United

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker

Between, Comedy, Point

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.
David Oyelowo

Truth, Help, America

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
Emma Bonino

Crazy, Woman, Thought

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston

Else, Between, Comedy

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Home, Put

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Whether, Disaster, Attack

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Mark Spitz

Memories, Games, Triumph

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud

Life, Joy, Full

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell

Life, Comedy, Neither

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher

End, Revolution, Beginning

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer

Someone, Else, Terrible

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz

Two, Same, Struggling

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

Future, Past, Human

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Godfrey Reggio

Time, Become, Aware

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
Simon Wiesenthal

Law, Learn, Next

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Tom Brokaw

Crisis, Words, Country

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.
Rose McGowan

Time, Crazy, Live

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