I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
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David Haye
British boxer
Being let down by people I trust always stings.
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter
Sometimes I can have a blind trust.
I had an opportunity many years ago to move to America and be given a daytime TV show. The kids were quite young and I decided not to, but looking back I wish I had done it.
Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
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More sleep, less stress.
The climate catastrophe.
Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
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