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"People always say sorry when they find out you are adopted, and I always replied 'Why? Don't be sorry'."

From BBC

In a touching new film about him, due to be released on Amazon Prime on 23 August, Eriksson says he has had a "good life", telling viewers, "don't be sorry, smile", before saying "thank you for everything coaches, players, the crowds. It’s been fantastic".

From BBC

At one point, Grisanti shoves a police officer who is attempting to handcuff his wife, telling the officer “you’re going to be sorry.”

“It’s been going on for so long, but hopefully now we can move forward. I don’t think she’ll ever be sorry for what she’s done,” she said.

From BBC

“Exactly! Accidentalism, little monk, is the reason accidents happen. I’m sorry you lost the birds, mistook their coincidental passing for a cosmic bond, asked a heretical question, and had stones hucked at your head. But I’m also not sorry, because there’s nothing to be sorry about. I would sooner get mad at a pebble that rolls down a winding mountain trail, right under my yak’s hoof. The pebble could never have stopped itself.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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