Beverly Sills Quotes

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Winning
  • Hands
  • Witty

• God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • God
  • Money
  • Heart

• I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Up
  • Time

• In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Up
  • Hope

• I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Wish

• I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.

  

  Beverly Sills
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