Beverly Sills Quotes
I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.
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Are life’s best survivors different from other people? No. They survive, cope, and thrive better because they are better at using the inborn capabilities possessed by all humans.
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Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
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I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.
