There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
BEVERLY SILLSThere is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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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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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’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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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I never share credit or desserts.
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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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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When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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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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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 is the signature of civilizations.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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