Beverly Sills Quotes

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• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important…
• The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
• There is no short cut to a place worth going.
• The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
• 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…
• 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…
• Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
• There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.
• I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
• I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
• I never share credit or desserts.
• I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
• 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.
• So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
• A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her…
• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
• 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…
• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
• Art is the signature of civilizations.
• 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…

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