Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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I never share credit or desserts.
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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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