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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
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
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
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
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
Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Beautiful Drama Meaningful
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
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 never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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Important Love One Seemed
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Careers Long Voice
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 SILLS

Brother Desire Men

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