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.
BEVERLY SILLSAttachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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I never share credit or desserts.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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?
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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