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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.

Beverly Sills

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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Believe Matter People
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
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
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
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Anxiety Boss Reality
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 music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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Beautiful Drama Meaningful
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
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.
BEVERLY SILLS

Art Environmental Perception
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
BEVERLY SILLS

Fame Hype Superstar

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