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We have covered a lot of tragedies, a lot of problems, a lot of conflict zones, a lot of hot spots in the region, because we were centered at the middle of it.
It could benefit from tragedies.
And when I would feel sorry for myself as nine or 10 year-old girls do, she would say to me, "My dear, on a scale of major world tragedies, yours is not a three."
I'm not going to go into the reasons for these tragedies, but they are part of the reason why technological change happens quite slowly.
So Biggie was killed weeks before that song made it to number one, in one of the great tragedies of the hip-hop era, but he would have been 13 years old and very much alive when "La Di Da Di" first came out, and as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, it's hard not to think that that song probably held some fond memories for him.
These illnesses can result in suicide; they often compromise one's ability to work at one's full potential; and they're the cause of so many tragedies harder to measure: lost relationships and connections, missed opportunities to pursue dreams and ideas.
Where ancient Athenian tragedies dealt with the downfall of the high and mighty, their comedies usually ended happily.
He was able to depict the strange reality of living in a post-colonial society, forced to relive the tragedies of the past.
That's my challenge to all of us, but I think where there's a will and where there is imagination we can turn this into a future driven by peace and prosperity and not once again repeat the tragedies of war.
JC: Yes, there are still tragedies that happen on the bumpy road to equality.
One of the great tragedies of urban development is that as our cities grew, we started covering all the surfaces with concrete and asphalt.
And like most of my colleagues, I have to deal, every day, with human tragedies.
I know that I will live with this tragedy, with these multiple tragedies, for the rest of my life.
And that's why you came to TED. (Laughter) (Applause) So, since all of this loss happened, I've made it a career to talk about death and loss, not just my own, because it's pretty easy to recap, but the losses and tragedies that other people have experienced.
It's one of the great cultural tragedies that we remember, even today.
We still don't know the full story, but we know how to prevent future tragedies.
And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art.
And I know we've all seen images enough to make us numb, of the tragedies that we're perpetrating on the planet.
So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.
This dark, surreal revisionism smears the true and heroic efforts of the Greek people to sustain their lust for life through the tragedies of the 20th century, to achieve more than any of their Balkan neighbors, to have become so politically evolved and globally integrated.
One of the worst things a film studio can do is exploit the tragedies of others, commercializing a 'shock' or 'gore' factor in order to sell tickets to be able to buy their Birch a new diamond necklace.
Franco Zeffirelli's ("The Taming Of The Shrew," "Romeo And Juliet," "Jesus Of Nazareth," "Othello") third stab at transferring Shakespeare to the screen works very well, with the casting of Mel Gibson ("Mad Max," "Lethal Weapon" and pre-"The Passion Of The Christ" notoriety) in the role formerly owned by Sir Laurence Olivier (and rightly so; see my review on his "Hamlet," arguably the best interpretation of one of the Bard's timeless (and most quoted) tragedies) and redone 5 years later by Kenneth Branagh as a full-bloodied treatment, explaining its 3 hour 22 minute running time, combined with a dream cast (and a lot of little additions, which were well-chosen and expertly done by the contemporary master of William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh, the director of "Henry V" and "Dead Again."
If you like tragedies, you MIGHT like this.
Wow, i just witnessed one of the greatest poker tragedies and I'm not talking about the premature death of the great stu ungar.
There are many tragedies, but there are also a lot of happy moments that make you laugh and smile.
Someone said the story has something to do with the Sheakespearian tragedies.
Thought provoking, humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war.
Consequently, if you are not into tragedies, this is not your movie.
The subject matter dwells on drugs and being hippies, but it mostly an anti war movie dealing with the senseless tragedies of Viet Nam.
I know of no other movie that has so well portrayed the intricate tragedies of the drug trade and the 'war on drugs."
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