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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

Beverly Sills

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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Drama Pretty Science Sound
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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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Fame Hype Superstar
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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Believe Matter People
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Feels Performer Sense Somersaults
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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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Brother Desire Men
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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Cheerful People Thinking
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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Art Direct Effect Indulge
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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Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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Children Ease Memorable
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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Being Inspirational Strength Strong
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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Passion Simple Work
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
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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Dog Funny Running
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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Art Environmental Perception
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short

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