I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
BEVERLY SILLSEverything 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.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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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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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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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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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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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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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