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.
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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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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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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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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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 never share credit or desserts.
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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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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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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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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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