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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.

Beverly Sills

I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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Blame Credit Inspirational
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
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 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
I never share credit or desserts.
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Credit Dessert Share
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
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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Attachment Love Spiritual
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 something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Admit Defeat Something
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
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 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
I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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Cheerful Cheerfulness Happen
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 no short cut to a place worth going.
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Achievement Cuts Cutting Short
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.

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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.

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