I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
BEVERLY SILLSThere are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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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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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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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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.
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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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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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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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I never share credit or desserts.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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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.
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