I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
BEVERLY SILLSI 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.
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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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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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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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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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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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 can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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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