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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills

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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Anxiety Boss Reality
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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Childhood Nuclear War
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Acceptance Art Inspirational
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
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
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
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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Evening Ruins Whole
When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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Whole Whole World World
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 press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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Fame Hype Superstar
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
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Dog Funny Running
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Getting Older Running Time
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
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
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
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
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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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