Beverly Sills Quotes
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
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I never share credit or desserts.
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There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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Don't get me started on critics.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
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I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
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I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.
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