Beverly Sills Quotes

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

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• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Guy
  • Unique
  • Same

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  

  Zane Grey
  • New
  • Year
  • Decent

• Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Home
  • Energy

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Money
  • Success
  • Musicians

• I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • May
  • Care

• I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Man
  • Like
  • Choose

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

  

  Gary Owens
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • World
  • Law
  • Understanding

• I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

  

  Kevin P. Ryan
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Great

• The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

  

  James Caan

• I'm not anti-progress, obviously, but I just think progress needs to be a broader thing than just the technology we can create; it's also how we handle it and our level of awareness.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Technology
  • Progress

• You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

  

  Beverly Sills