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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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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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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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 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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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
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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.
