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They all had wives, and they all knew how important this was and how sentimental it was to us. – Lynn Andrews	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm very sentimental like her. – And Autumn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He was on a tight rope in terms of not being over-sentimental or morbid, he was really happy with how it came together and how the show looked and how it has reinvented itself. – Chris Noth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Jim and I had a lot of nice moments together on set and I think one of the things that worked so well for us as actor partners, and maybe as producing partners too, is that we’re not overly sentimental as humans, which I think is helpful, it was helpful in our acting and also in the way we kind of processed ending a decade together. – Mayim Bialik	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We lost money, but more than anything, what bothers us is that this project had sentimental value and they took away the possibility for us to learn from it. – Juan Pablo	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
In my opinion 2020 has been one of the worst years ever and I think a lot of people just need something to lift their spirits be it a little sentimental or cheesy in spots, i wanted it to be completely different from what people expected from us. – John Rzeznik	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing. – Ry Cooder	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
It's the gown that has been sitting in their closet collecting dust but is too sentimental to do anything with, now this is an honorable donation. So they can feel good about where it's going. – Nathaniel Moore	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I really wanted to try do something ceremonial and sentimental to celebrate that. – Dan Mace	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All of these things are traditions that many are sentimental about, but none of these symbols are essentials to the church. – Thomas Groome	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Don't tell me to take my [ explicit ] top off in the middle of my sentimental speech. – Maggie Rogers	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The people buried here escaped fascism during the war. Theyre the founders of the community who bought these lands to make it a cemetery, it has historical and sentimental value. – David Prinstein	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I like looking back and holding on to that stuff, i definitely miss it, and there's times I'll get so sentimental and so sad, but this had to happen for some reason. – Khloe Kardashian	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I feel like Robin's voice has been heard and I can finally grieve in the home we shared together, while it was painful to have truckloads of his belongings removed from our home, it's the few sentimental items I get to hold onto that mean everything to me. I thank God for this. – Susan Williams	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive. – Mike Huckabee	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's just the way (Wendy) had gone through the effort of decorating the pen (with Union Jacks) where the cows were being kept, there's also a sign behind (her) ... and there's a picture of a gentleman with a cow, who is actually her husband who had died a few years ago. ... I just thought that was nice, something quite sentimental about that. – Jooney Woodward	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We acknowledge the sentimental effect of a stock split, but how big an effect such an action can have on the company's long-term value needs to be considered from a variety of angles. – Robert Yi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens. – Camille Paglia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas H. Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea. – Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. – Otto von Bismark	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. – Brigid Antonia Brophy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. – Helen Merrell Lynd	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They all had wives, and they all knew how important this was and how sentimental it was to us.

– Lynn Andrews

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm very sentimental like her.

– And Autumn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He was on a tight rope in terms of not being over-sentimental or morbid, he was really happy with how it came together and how the show looked and how it has reinvented itself.

– Chris Noth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jim and I had a lot of nice moments together on set and I think one of the things that worked so well for us as actor partners, and maybe as producing partners too, is that we’re not overly sentimental as humans, which I think is helpful, it was helpful in our acting and also in the way we kind of processed ending a decade together.

– Mayim Bialik

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We lost money, but more than anything, what bothers us is that this project had sentimental value and they took away the possibility for us to learn from it.

– Juan Pablo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In my opinion 2020 has been one of the worst years ever and I think a lot of people just need something to lift their spirits be it a little sentimental or cheesy in spots, i wanted it to be completely different from what people expected from us.

– John Rzeznik

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

– Ry Cooder

added by RobertHaigh
4 years ago

It's the gown that has been sitting in their closet collecting dust but is too sentimental to do anything with, now this is an honorable donation. So they can feel good about where it's going.

– Nathaniel Moore

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I really wanted to try do something ceremonial and sentimental to celebrate that.

– Dan Mace

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All of these things are traditions that many are sentimental about, but none of these symbols are essentials to the church.

– Thomas Groome

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Don't tell me to take my [ explicit ] top off in the middle of my sentimental speech.

– Maggie Rogers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The people buried here escaped fascism during the war. Theyre the founders of the community who bought these lands to make it a cemetery, it has historical and sentimental value.

– David Prinstein

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I like looking back and holding on to that stuff, i definitely miss it, and there's times I'll get so sentimental and so sad, but this had to happen for some reason.

– Khloe Kardashian

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I feel like Robin's voice has been heard and I can finally grieve in the home we shared together, while it was painful to have truckloads of his belongings removed from our home, it's the few sentimental items I get to hold onto that mean everything to me. I thank God for this.

– Susan Williams

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.

– Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's just the way (Wendy) had gone through the effort of decorating the pen (with Union Jacks) where the cows were being kept, there's also a sign behind (her) ... and there's a picture of a gentleman with a cow, who is actually her husband who had died a few years ago. ... I just thought that was nice, something quite sentimental about that.

– Jooney Woodward

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A good father knows how to wait and knows how to forgive from the bottom of his heart. Of course he can also discipline with a firm hand: he's not weak, submissive, sentimental, this father knows how to discipline without demeaning; he knows how to protect without restraint.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We acknowledge the sentimental effect of a stock split, but how big an effect such an action can have on the company's long-term value needs to be considered from a variety of angles.

– Robert Yi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

– Camille Paglia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

– Thomas H. Huxley

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

– Otto von Bismark

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

– Brigid Antonia Brophy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

– Helen Merrell Lynd

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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