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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.

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
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
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 are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
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
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
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.
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Careers Long Voice
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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
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

There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.

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