Beverly Sills Quotes
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context , is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.
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Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)
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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
