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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.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Feels Performer Sense Somersaults
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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
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
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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Committed Heavenly Sitting Think
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
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
Don’t get me started on critics.
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Critics Started Get
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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Awful People Skinny
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
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

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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